‘I was not being loved. I was just a body’: Mena Suvari on surviving sexual abuse, acting and American Beauty

The model and actor’s shocking memoir tells how shame and denial prevented her from telling anyone she was raped when she was 12, which led to another abusive relationship – with an older man – and years of drug addiction
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