Brooke Baldwin

This woman has been married to her husband for 52 years and has never shared with him

what was done to her when she was 18.

And what she is still working with and wrestling with is she said she was so, it happened in silence and she felt so much shame, she didn't wanna scream.

And all these years later, she's still so angry at herself

for not screaming all those years ago.

So it's like, instead of being so angry at the man who did this to her, she's still working through the anger at herself that she didn't scream.

And that's what I'm talking about.

Like, I think that's part of why maybe on some subconscious level, I wanted to talk about this.

And even for me, this was 25 years ago and only now, like it wasn't naivety that I didn't come out and talk about it.

It was like,

we live in this culture, where we're taught that it's really girls and women who are to blame.

And

that.

Yeah.

Fuck that.

Yeah.

And in this self gaslighting, like we have to stop that.

And I am guilty.

I think literally from the moment I asked that man to please leave my room.

And I was with my friend who is no longer my friend.