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from www.hollywoodreporter.com – In her new memoir A Helluva High Note, former American Idol judge Kara DioGuardi reveals she was molested as a child.
She says the abuse started when she was 11 at the hands of a family friend’s son.
“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 in the book, to be published April 26. “I remember freezing and not knowing what to do.”
Years later, she experienced more pain when she was date-raped in 2000 by a “fairly known producer.”
After sharing what she thought was a friendly dinner, she writes: “…He was on top of me, pumping, sweating and speaking to me in Spanish, not a word of which I could understand.”
She said she was afraid to fight him off, fearing he would hurt her.
In the book, DioGuardi (whose new Bravo show Platinum Hit debuts May 30) also opens up about workplace harassment, revealing that she was once sent on a three-day “songwriting trip” with a “hugely successful artist.”
DioGuardi said “the trip’s activities consisted of watching Russian porn, scavenging around the kitchen for food [and] leering at two strippers … as they performed sex acts in the living room.”
She ignored the inappropriate conduct … until the artist made the moves on her in his basement home and forced her hand to his crotch.
from www.usmagaine.com – Kara DioGuardi has dealt with far worse things than judge-table spats on American Idol.
In a frank new memoir, A Helluva High Note, the music industry vet and former Idol judge, 40, reveals that she suffered molestation as a a child and, as a young adult, was date-raped by a prominent music producer.
DioGuardi says that, at age 11, a teenaged family friend repeatedly molested her. “On one particular day, he took me into the the back shed of his house and put his hands all over my [body],” DioGuardi writes in an excerpt at E! News. “I remember freezing and not knowing what to do.”
Another painful secret: In 2000, as her music career rose, she went on a date with a “fairly known producer,” who sexually forced himself upon her after a cordial dinner.
“[W]ithin a few hours, he was on top of me, pumping, sweating, and speaking to me in Spanish, not a word of which I could understand,” DioGuardi writes.
She kept the violent date-rape secret for fear it would ruin her career, she says.
DioGuardi also writes of sexual harassment at the hands of a “hugely successful artist” who was obsessed with “Russian porn” and hiring strippers for perform sex acts in front of him.
Of her early season 9 departure from Idol, the star explains that she was struggling to get pregnant via IVF.
“I wanted a child and there was no way I could get pregnant under the stress of eighteen-hour work days and live TV. . . My desire to be in control of my destiny was larger than my need to be a household name.” A Helluva High Note hits shelves April 26; DioGuardi will next appear on TV via Platinum Hit, a new Bravo reality series debuting May 30.