Queen Latifah recently revealed in her July 2009 cover story for Essence Magazine that as a child, she was sexually abused by a teenager who was taking care of her. “He violated me,” she says of the abuser. “I never told anybody; I just buried it as deeply as I could and kept people at an arm’s distance

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Queen Latifah Covers July 2009 Essence Magazine + Reveals that She was Sexually Abused as a Child