She had denied publicly that she is dating him.

This was a very heavy burden to carry around for all these years. She's unloading it, getting rid of it. She's saying, 'This is who I am, this is how it affected me.' She's trying to move beyond it.

It's tremendously painful for her to dredge all of this up. It makes her feel very vulnerable and very exposed.

They live on the same street. They had gone to a neighborhood hang out of his and had dinner.

The debacle with Mystery Man … made the parallels between her romantic failures and the legacy of her sexual abuse seem too obvious to ignore.

Leslie, don’t you believe that I know who you will marry, and that I’m capable of leading you to that right man someday?