Keke Palmer shares the impact of sexual abuse on children

Keke Palmer is opening up about being a victim of child-on-child sexual abuse.

Ahead of the release of his new book Master of Me: The Secret to Controlling Your Narrative on November 19, when she mentioned being molested by a peer when she was around five years old, the actress and singer spoke candidly with People magazine on traumatic experience.

“People don't really think about child molestation, but it's something that exists,” Palmer said. “I felt weird and violated, but I didn't really know how to place it. I just knew I had all these strange feelings and thoughts, and I felt a little out of control and overwhelmed.

Having been drawn to performing from a young age, the Honey, this is Keke Palmer the presenter got her first small role at the age of 10 in 2004 Barber 2. However, it wasn't until two years later that Palmer realized the personal impact of the trauma he had suffered.

“I was reading a book about sexual abuse and it said all these things about anxiety and hypersexualization,” she said Honey, this is Keke Palmer the host recalled. “All these things I attributed to myself, but in reality they were because of what I had experienced.”

Once she was finally able to process the incident, “it wasn't about blaming that other child,” she said, “sometimes we don't know what happened to us, especially if it doesn't look like the world told you it looks.

Palmer became a child star in later years after landing the lead role Jackson's real vice president on Nickelodeon. Since then he has starred in dozens of projects, including Scream queens2019 Cheaters and 2022 No.

“Fame shocked us. It was a shock to be able to make so much money, to be able to go to Universal Studios and have a hundred people around me at the same time,” he said of his family's reaction to his rise to stardom at a young age. “The weight of it was really terrible and we all felt it in so many different ways.”

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