It's tremendously painful for her to dredge all of this up. It makes her feel very vulnerable and very exposed.

This was a very heavy burden to carry around for all these years. She's unloading it, getting rid of it. She's saying, 'This is who I am, this is how it affected me.' She's trying to move beyond it.

They live on the same street. They had gone to a neighborhood hang out of his and had dinner.

The debacle with Mystery Man … made the parallels between her romantic failures and the legacy of her sexual abuse seem too obvious to ignore.

She had denied publicly that she is dating him.

It was really painful. I just felt so vulnerable that someone could, with the stroke of a pen, cut me off from my child that way.