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

It’s a mistake to act as though we’re not created equal.
It’s another mistake not to correct the first one.
Blaming others nurtures failure.
Helping others reaps a share of their success.

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.

She had denied publicly that she is dating him.