“Even though I have been so open about things that I’ve gone through in my life, I’ve never been open about them in an emotional way,” she said. (Joe Simpson, 61, is also her former manager; after a remission, his cancer recently returned.) Ms. Simpson writes that for six years, starting when she was 6 years old, she was sexually abused by a daughter of a family friend (who, Ms. Simpson later finds out, was being molested by an older boy). When Jessica told her parents what was happening, they never returned. “It took me until I was 13 years old to know that if I wasn’t put in that situation anymore, it could stop,” she said.

Source: New York Times January 29, 2020 18:22 UTC