Kara DioGuardi has been nothing but a sweet-heart in the pop music and entertainment world, but the music industry hotshot talks serious when she opens up about her childhood being molested and date-raped by a well known music producer.
The former American Idol judge opens up in her new memoir, A Helluva High Note.
via E! News,
DioGuardi, reveals that she was repeatedly molested when she was just 11 years old by a family friend's son who was in his late teens. "On one particular day, he took me into the back shed of his house and put his hands all over my breasts and vagina," she writes. "I remember freezing and not knowing what to do."
By 2000, DioGuardi's career started to take off. It was about that time she says that a "fairly known producer" date-raped her after having what she thought was a friendly dinner.
A few years later, DioGuardi found herself sexually harassed by a "hugely successful artist.
Her memoir, A Helluva High Note hits bookstore on April 26.
Her new show Platinum Hit premieres May 30 on Bravo.
[E! News]
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