'For me, it was a weight that I carried so heavily on my chest, so I felt like, if I shared it with people, then it would be a relief for me.'
opened up about realizing she had been sexually abused, and the dark time she experienced as allegations against longtime USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar surfaced., Simone said she was angry when people first started accusing Nassar of sexual abuse, and wouldn't talk to her family about the allegations. Before she had admitted to herself that she too had been abused, Simone said she went through a period where she just wanted to hide from everything.
It wasn't until gymnast Maggie Nichols shared her story that Simon realized she had been abused by Nassar, too.I’ve had the same treatmentsBecause I know some girls had it worse than me. I know that for a fact. So I felt like I wasn’t abused, because it wasn’t to the same extent as the other girls. Some of my friends had it really, really bad. They were his favorite. Since mine wasn’t to that capacity, I felt like it didn’t happen.
“It is not normal to receive any type of treatment from a trusted team physician and refer to it horrifyingly as the 'special' treatment,” she wrote on Twitter at the time. "This behavior is completely unacceptable, disgusting, and abusive, especially coming from someone whom I was TOLD to trust."“For me, it was a weight that I carried so heavily on my chest, so I felt like, if I shared it with people, then it would be a relief for me,” she said.
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