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Shania Twain used to ‘flatten’ her boobs to protect herself
from stepfather’s abuse
By Jack Hobbs, NY Post
December 4, 2022 5:22pm Updated
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Country singer Shania Twain revealed Sunday that she used to flatten her boobs in her childhood home to avoid being sexually abused by her stepfather, Jerry Twain.
The 57-year-old singer said that Jerry Twain would allegedly physically and emotionally abuse her while she lived in the house, reports The Sunday Times.
I'm sure she didn't say that he would 'allegedly' abuse her. There's no need to insert 'allegedly' into a quote.
“I hid myself and I would flatten my boobs. I would wear bras that were too small for me, and I’d wear two, play it down until there was nothing girl about me,” said the “Man! I Feel Like A Woman!” singer.
“Make it easier to go unnoticed. Because, oh my gosh, it was terrible — you didn’t want to be a girl in my house.”
Twain — who began her performance career at the age of eight — said she struggled with embracing her femininity due to the abuse.
The “You’re Still the One” singer first detailed the hardships in her 2011 autobiography “From this Moment.”
In the book, Twain details how there were times when she had to physically step between her parents because she was afraid that her stepfather might kill her mother.
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“It took a long time to manage that anger. You don’t want to be somebody that attacks me on the street,” said Twain. ‘”Because I will f–king rip your head off if I get the chance.”
Might still be just a little anger remaining!
Twain’s parents died when the singer was 22, and the singer spent many more years learning to love her body.
“I could speak and tell a story about myself, by the way I moved my body, the drape of the fabrics, the colours, where the focus was,” explained Twain.
“I was never an exhibitionist for the sake of, like, saying, you know, ‘Look at my tits.’ It was really me coming into myself. It was a metamorphosis of sorts.”
The Post reached out to Twain for comment.
Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin not guilty of 1988 sexual assault, judge rules
By Aaron D'Andrea Global News
Posted December 5, 2022 6:34 am
Updated December 5, 2022 1:54 pm
Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin, the former head of Canada’s COVID-19 vaccine campaign, has been found not guilty of sexual assault, a judge has ruled.
Fortin, who has maintained his innocence, was charged with one count of sexual assault by Quebec prosecutors last year. Judge Richard Meredith delivered the verdict Monday afternoon in Gatineau, Que. There was no jury in the trial, which began in September and wrapped up in October.
The complainant in the case, who was attending military college with Fortin in 1988 in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., testified at the trial that she woke up one night in her dorm room to find a man masturbating himself using one of her hands, while another hand was on her breast.
A publication ban protects her name and any details that could identify her.
She alleged during the trial Fortin was the perpetrator “without a doubt.” In the Crown prosecutor’s closing statement, Diane Legault argued there was no reason to believe the complainant would have forgotten, or become mistaken about the identity of her aggressor in the years since the alleged incident.
The complainant testified she was aware of how such complaints were handled by the Canadian Armed Forces at the time, and that knowledge deterred her from wanting anyone to know what happened. It was only after she had retired and no longer feared career repercussions that she brought the alleged incident forward in 2021, the prosecutor said.
Fortin’s defence lawyer, Isabel Schurman, had asked the judge for an acquittal. She said that the complainant’s testimony lacked credibility, and that other witnesses had failed to back up some of the details of her story.
A key point for the defence was that while the complainant said she told her ex-boyfriend about the incident right afterward, he told the court he had no memory of the conversation.
Fortin, who was removed from his position in charge of the COVID-19 vaccine campaign in May 2021 due to an investigation into the allegation, is separately challenging that dismissal in the Federal Court of Canada.
Disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti is sentenced to 14 YEARS
in federal prison
For dodging taxes and stealing $12M from clients - to be served consecutively
with his five-year sentence for extorting Nike and stealing from Stormy Daniels
Disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti, 51, famous for representing porn star Stormy Daniels, was given 14 year prison sentence for stealing millions from clients
The judge ruled that he should serve his sentence on top of an existing five years
Avenatti used the money he stole from clients to purchase a Honda private jet
He was ordered to pay nearly $8million in damages to four clients he conned
Prosecutors said he took $12million but he said it was closer to $3.8million
One of the clients he defrauded was a mentally ill paraplegic on disability
By NEIRIN GRAY DESAI FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 15:44 EST, 5 December 2022 | UPDATED: 17:19 EST, 5 December 2022
Read the complete story at the Daily Mail.
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