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Actress Amber Tamblyn says she was assaulted by a former boyfriend, and felt compelled to share it after Donald Trump’s 2005 remarks about groping and kissing women.
Tamblyn took to Instagram on Oct. 10 to share her horrifying personal story of sexual assault, and says that her ex-boyfriend grabbed her by her hair and crotch and carried her out of a nightclub.
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“I need to tell you a story. With the love and support of my husband, I’ve decided to share it publicly,” the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants actress wrote on Instagram.
“A very long time ago I ended a long emotionally and physically abusive relationship with a man I had been with for some time. One night I was at a show with a couple girlfriends in Hollywood, listening to a DJ we all loved. I knew there was a chance my ex could show up, but I felt protected with my girls around me.”
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In the post, featuring a photo of Donald Trump with Olivia Culpo — the Miss Universe and Miss USA winner who chose to step down from her role as judge in last year’s Miss USA competition after Trump referred to Mexicans as rapists — Tamblyn continued to talk about a moment when her ex-boyfriend did exactly what Trump described in Friday’s leaked video.
“His fingers were practically inside of me, his other hand wrapped tightly around my hair,” the General Hospital alum continued. “I screamed and kicked and cried. He carried me this way, suspended by his hands, all the way across the room, pushing past people until he got to the front door. My friends ran after him, trying to stop him. We got to the front door and I thank God his brothers were also there and intervened. In the scuffle he grabbed at my clothes, trying to hold onto me, screaming at me, and inadvertently ripped off my grandmother’s necklace, which I was wearing. The rest of this night is a blur I do not remember. How I got out of the car. How I got away from him that night. I never returned for my necklace either.”
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Tamblyn said that she decided to share the story in the aftermath of the leak of Trump’s 2005 conversation with former Access Hollywood host Billy Bush, in which the Republican presidential candidate bragged about hitting on women and grabbing them “by the p***y.”
She says that part of her body that Trump “described as something he’d like to grab a woman by, was bruised from my ex-boyfriend’s violence for at least the next week.” She also wrote, “I had a hard time wearing jeans. I couldn’t sleep without a pillow between my legs to create space. To this day I remember that moment.”
The 33-year-old revealed she’s afraid her parents will see her post, but she “needed to tell a story.”
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Since The Washington Post released the Trump tapes on Oct. 7, millions of women have taken to Twitter to fire back with sexual assault stories of their own.
Canadian writer Kelly Oxford asked her social media followers to tweet their own experiences of sexual abuse. According to Fortune, she has since received nearly 10 million replies.
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Trumps GOP presidential campaign has been thrown into upheaval since the videotape of his remarks was made public Friday.
Read Tamblyn’s full post below:
With files from The Associated Press
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