Jeannie Mai Shares Story Of Childhood Sexual Abuse

Jeannie Mai is bravely opening up a few scarring expertise of sexual abuse from her childhood.

In a video posted to her YouTube channel, the The Actual co-host, sitting alongside her mom, detailed a traumatic expertise that occurred when she was solely 9. Within the clip, she even revealed that Mama Mai’s refusal to imagine her led to them turning into estranged for greater than 10 years.

She began out by explaining that her mom left her within the care of a member of the family, who went on to sexually abuse her, whereas she took on a second job.

“We would have liked to discover a babysitter, so we referred to as upon a member of the family,” Mai mentioned. “He came visiting each single day and stayed with me after faculty.”

Whereas Mai avoided naming her abuser, she did specify that he was “16 or 17” on the time and was an “iconic particular person” in her life up till the purpose of the abuse. She mentioned that her mom additionally thought-about him to be an upstanding teenager.

“I simply keep in mind at some point this particular person sitting very near me,” she continued. “We had been enjoying video video games, and he began to the touch my thigh. I used to be additionally simply surprised as a result of I had by no means been intimately touched like that so I could not inform if it was improper. I simply knew I used to be noticing it.”

Jeannie added that, as time went on, his inappropriate touches intensified with him taking off her garments, exposing himself to her and explaining to her how she ought to contact him. When she advised her mother of his habits, she was shocked to see that she didn’t have her again.

“I keep in mind him pulling me into that bathe and it was the primary time I’ve seen a grown man and what he appeared like,” she mentioned. “I keep in mind him telling me to the touch him in sure methods. This occurred every single day for a number of weeks, after which it changed into months and I keep in mind one yr going by. I did not say something as a result of I used to be afraid. I started to get indignant as a result of now I am telling my mother that he is taking off my garments and also you mentioned, ‘I do not imagine you.'”

Her mom tried to clarify why she turned a blind eye to her daughter’s abuse.

“Once I do not imagine it, I simply let it go,” she mentioned earlier than explaining that what her daughter was telling her on the time didn’t match up with the character of the particular person she appointed to look after her. “I do not see something dangerous about him.”

Jeannie mentioned that her mom’s hurtful denial of her assault ultimately led her to run away from residence at 16.

Watch them each open up in regards to the heartbreaking second, under: