Gabrielle Union is still navigating life after a tragic tragedy thirty years later. In an Instagram post on June 7, the Cheaper by the Dozen actress revealed some of her personal challenges, revealing how posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and anxiety affect her day-to-day existence in the spotlight after she was raped at the age of 19.
She began her message by saying, “As a rape survivor, I have suffered PTSD for 30 years.” “It’s never been easy dealing with anxiety and panic attacks all these years.” There are moments when my anxiousness is so acute that it makes my life smaller.”
Union admitted that leaving her residence or even making an unprotected left turn at a traffic signal “frightens me.” Her anxiousness has the potential to become debilitating.
In her book We’re Going to Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True, the actress, who has been married to Dwyane Wade for seven years, previously talked up about being raped. Union said she was raped at gunpoint while working at a Payless shoe store when she was 19 years old in an excerpt released by Glamour in 2017.
She’s spoken about her decision to “embrace” being an s.e.xual assault survivor over the years.
In 2017, she told E! News, “I have to keep talking out because people feel like they’re the only ones.” “They feel like they’re alone on an island; they feel like they’re shouting into a hurricane and no one is listening, and I’m the only one who can hear them.”
