Gabrielle Union has opened up about some of her most painful struggles in her emotional new memoir, We're Gonna Need More Wine.
In the book, out later this month, The Bring it On actress reveals she was raped at gunpoint inside a store where she worked while at college.
Now 44, she recounts the aftermath of the horrific ordeal in a section released in People magazine.
"The way my dad looked at me after [he heard what had happened], oh my God, is still a nightmare," she says.
"I sued Payless [the store] for negligence, but I wanted to sue them for my dad looking at me like that. The look was: Damaged. Victim. Guilt. Fear.
"I was the kid you bragged about. I got great grades, was the perfect athlete... and in that moment, I was damaged."
Union says the ramifications are still present today.
"After I was raped, I didn't leave my house for a whole year unless I had to go to court or to therapy," she writes. "Twenty-four years later, fear still influences everything I do."
The LA Times reports that the actress sued Payless, because her attacker had previously been identified by the chain store, after he robbed a different outlet, but they failed to warn employees. The man was caught and sentenced to 33 years in prison.
In the book, Union also opens up about a string of miscarriages she has suffered in her quest to get pregnant to husband Dwyane Wade.
She has been with the NBA player since 2015 and is stepmother to his three boys - nephew Dahveon Morris, 16, and two sons from a previous marriage, Zaire, 15, and Zion, 10.
"I have had eight or nine miscarriages," Union writes.
"For three years, my body has been a prisoner of trying to get pregnant. I've either been about to go into an IVF cycle, in the middle of an IVF cycle or coming out of an IVF cycle."
Union has talked about IVF struggles before.
"So far, it has not happened for us," she told Redbook in 2015. "A lot of my friends deal with this.
"There's a certain amount of shame that is placed on women who have perhaps chosen a career over starting a family younger. The penance for being a career woman is barrenness.
"You feel like you're wearing a scarlet letter."
Union wrote on Twitter Wednesday (local time) that she was using the book as a means to help others going through similar struggles.
"Why I share my pain along with my joy, important to connect," she tweeted. "No need to suffer in silence or in solitude. Thank u for the support!"
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