Frank Stallone

And I said,

no I it was dark and someone had a knife hit my throat and they said well did you let him in so they proceeded to try to beat me down and have me admit that I knew the person and that I had let them in when the window was clearly broken into right yeah it's sad I mean it was those days in Texas you know and I was and I said even if I knew him what would it matter he still raped me and left me in a pool of blood so why would it matter if I knew him but I didn't did you call the police or was it your neighbor friend that called the police

I think he called the police.

As a victim, yeah.

But it wasn't.

It was because I was embarrassed and humiliated and didn't want to deal with it.

Well, you might be right, but the only saving grace for me, just to backtrack one second, is that my grandmother was a real religious, strict, God-fearing, no-nonsense southern woman, Texas woman, who slept with a 38 next to her bed, and she wasn't afraid of anything.

So I got some of that from her.

I got this sort of don't-fuck-with-me attitude, which I took with me to New York.

But that was such a shocking thing to be knocked out.

I mean, you never expect this to happen to you as a woman.

And you're just in shock.

Well, you know what?

I didn't.

A lot of women, I guess, are raped.

And they go through this devastating period afterwards.

And it just screws up their whole lives.

And I have to say, maybe it was just my way of stuffing everything down and ignoring it and moving on.

But I was so grateful to be alive.

That I didn't dwell on what had happened.