Thanks Oprah…

At age 19, Daddy’s Little Girl star, Gabrielle Union was working a summer job in a mall shoe store, when she was assaulted one evening as she was closing up the shoe store. The rapist forced Union and a co-worker into a back room, where he raped the actress and beat her brutally. She insists she would not be alive today if it weren’t for important lessons she learned from watching Oprah Winfrey’s daily talk show. She mentions, “Luckily, Oprah had a show about what to do in case you’re a victim of a violent crime.”Immediately, I went on autopilot; it was like Oprah was in my ear, telling me what to do to stay alive… Thank God for Oprah because her words helped me live.”She adds, “At some point he put the gun down and calmly asked me to hand him the gun and, at that point, I was like, ‘Oh, it’s me or you, and it ain’t gonna be me today. I’m about to kill you.’ “I grabbed the gun, I spun around and did the best I could trying to kill him.” The actress missed her attacker when she shot at him and this led to a fight for the gun, which left her black and blue. The rapist fled and later turned himself in to police after another rape attack. I can not explain the hate, no, not hate, the disgust i have for rapist. im glad this man was sentenced to 33 years in jail and hopefully he will rot, as well as any other rapist convicted. This blog really touches my heart in someway. hopefully it will touch yours too. You see these things don’t just happen to ordinary people, they happen to people like us too. It’s up to us to help stop it. Join Lifetime, get into the movement. End Violence Against Women!