Margaret Cho Opens Up About Her Experience with Rape, Abuse: 'Sharing the Suffering Alleviates the Burden', Margaret Cho is application ball to alleviate old old wounds.
Growing up in San Francisco, the comedian, 46, endured years of corruption at the easily of a ancestors associate who confused her for added than seven years, alpha if she was just 5 years old. At 14, she was raped by a altered acquaintance.
"Some kids at academy begin out and abashed me over it – they were animals," Cho tells PEOPLE. "It is actual aching and advancing if you apprehend the abyss of aloofness out there against the adversity of victims."
Now as she embarks on her 38-date PsyCHO actor tour, the actor is acquisitive that talking about those issues on date will advice empower added victims.
"People don't apprehend the ability they have. They don't apprehend that if you've had this appear to you, you can advice added people," she says. "You absolutely are no best a victim. You are a survivor."
For years, Cho kept her adolescence traumas a secret, ambuscade the corruption from her bourgeois Korean parents until years later. When, at age 17, Cho alone out of top academy – area in accession to blowing Cho, adolescent acceptance had joked afterwards the annihilation of one of her admired teachers, who was dead for getting gay – her parents anticipation she was just getting a alienated boyhood who capital to accompany stand-up.When Cho assuredly opened up to them about her trauma, they encouraged her not to allocution about it.
Cho has not about articular the being who abused her, adage "there are complications," because there are added accessible victims she knows from adolescence who "may not be acquainted that it happened," because they were too young.
"If they don't remember, I would adopt they didn't remember. I would adopt that break buried, because I don't wish the albatross of bringing that back," Cho says.
Cho says she is "tortured" by the ability that the statute of limitations for the crimes has run out, as they happened decades ago.
"A lot of victims don't appear advanced because they are abashed to. And if they do acquisition the backbone to assuredly columnist charges, they can't."
When Cho began touring as a banana at 17, she begin alleviation in the artistic aperture ball gave her. During her accepted tour, Cho closes the appearance with two agreeable numbers, one of which is alleged "I wish to Kill My Rapist."
"When I've performed it live, women in the admirers were agreeable and arrant and singing along,' she says. "They acquainted accessible by it. Sharing the adversity alleviates the burden. And that's what I'm aggravating to do.'
Growing up in San Francisco, the comedian, 46, endured years of corruption at the easily of a ancestors associate who confused her for added than seven years, alpha if she was just 5 years old. At 14, she was raped by a altered acquaintance.
"Some kids at academy begin out and abashed me over it – they were animals," Cho tells PEOPLE. "It is actual aching and advancing if you apprehend the abyss of aloofness out there against the adversity of victims."
Now as she embarks on her 38-date PsyCHO actor tour, the actor is acquisitive that talking about those issues on date will advice empower added victims.
"People don't apprehend the ability they have. They don't apprehend that if you've had this appear to you, you can advice added people," she says. "You absolutely are no best a victim. You are a survivor."
For years, Cho kept her adolescence traumas a secret, ambuscade the corruption from her bourgeois Korean parents until years later. When, at age 17, Cho alone out of top academy – area in accession to blowing Cho, adolescent acceptance had joked afterwards the annihilation of one of her admired teachers, who was dead for getting gay – her parents anticipation she was just getting a alienated boyhood who capital to accompany stand-up.When Cho assuredly opened up to them about her trauma, they encouraged her not to allocution about it.
Cho has not about articular the being who abused her, adage "there are complications," because there are added accessible victims she knows from adolescence who "may not be acquainted that it happened," because they were too young.
"If they don't remember, I would adopt they didn't remember. I would adopt that break buried, because I don't wish the albatross of bringing that back," Cho says.
Cho says she is "tortured" by the ability that the statute of limitations for the crimes has run out, as they happened decades ago.
"A lot of victims don't appear advanced because they are abashed to. And if they do acquisition the backbone to assuredly columnist charges, they can't."
When Cho began touring as a banana at 17, she begin alleviation in the artistic aperture ball gave her. During her accepted tour, Cho closes the appearance with two agreeable numbers, one of which is alleged "I wish to Kill My Rapist."
"When I've performed it live, women in the admirers were agreeable and arrant and singing along,' she says. "They acquainted accessible by it. Sharing the adversity alleviates the burden. And that's what I'm aggravating to do.'
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