AnnaLynne McCord Opens Up On Troubled Past, Suicide Attempt
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So heartbreaking. ’90210′ alum AnnaLynne McCord is speaking out about being sexually assaulted by a former friend in a new essay in ‘Cosmopolitan’ magazine, revealing that the traumatic experience drove her to have dark, ‘suicidal thoughts.’
AnnaLynne McCord, 26, is opening up about her painful past and troubled upbringing in a candid new essay for Cosmo magazine, vowing that she’s “done staying quiet about my sexual assault.” What a brave young woman!
AnnaLynne’s troubles started at a young age, while she was growing up with her “extremely religious and conservative family in Georgia.” AnnaLynne reveals in her Cosmo essay that she and her sisters were often subjected to “painful and ritualistic” spankings.
“I knew my mom and dad loved me, and I loved them too. I still do … but at the same time, my parents hurt me, which told me they hated me,” she writes. “I know they were doing what they thought was right to discipline their kids. But it really messed me up.”
Her parents also had very strict views about sex, which led AnnaLynne to have dysfunctional relationships with men later in life. “I became sort of promiscuous but didn’t actually have sex. I’d get right there with the guy and then stop, thinking I’d go to hell,” she shares, adding that she also “pushed men to be violent” toward her. “My sexual relationships were dark and violently dramatic.”
Of course, the darkest and scariest experience for AnnaLynne was when, at 18, she was raped by someone she thought was her friend.
“He said he needed a good night’s sleep for a meeting, as he’d been crashing on someone’s couch. I had known him for some time, so I said to come over and I set him up with a clean towel,” she writes. “We sat on the bed and talked for a while, then I fell asleep. When I woke up, he was inside me.”