I think that having been abused when she was a child has had a really damaging affect on her adult relationships. |
It's rather an explosive chapter in her personal history. I think Teri has always been tormented about what happened with her uncle. |
It's tremendously painful for her to dredge all of this up. It makes her feel very vulnerable and very exposed. |
She had denied publicly that she is dating him. |
The debacle with Mystery Man … made the parallels between her romantic failures and the legacy of her sexual abuse seem too obvious to ignore. |
They live on the same street. They had gone to a neighborhood hang out of his and had dinner. |
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. |