KARA DIOGUARDI reveals being repeatedly molested as a young child and was date-raped by a famous music producer. In her new memoir “A Helluva High Note,” DioGuardi opens up about her bitter past.
Some of the shocking excerpts from her book:
The former American Idol judge, DioGuardi reveals that she was repeatedly molested when she was just 11 years old by a family friend’s son who was in his late teens.
“On one particular day, he took me into the back shed of his house and put his hands all over my breasts and vagina,” she writes. “I remember freezing and not knowing what to do.”
By 2000, DioGuardi’s career started to take off. It was about that time she says that a “fairly known producer” date-raped her after having what she thought was a friendly dinner.
“[W]ithin a few hours, he was on top of me, pumping, sweating, and speaking to me in Spanish, not a word of which I could understand,” she writes.
A few years later, DioGuardi found herself sexually harassed by a “hugely successful artist.” She was invited to a three-day songwriting trip. But instead of working, she writes, “the trip’s activities consisted of watching Russian porn, scavenging around the kitchen for food [and] leering at two strippers…as they performed sex acts in the living room.”
DioGuardi says she continued to work with the artist because, she writes, “I wasn’t gonna let this bastard deter me from doing the job.” She eventually walked away after he chased her around the basement of his suburban home and forced her hand on his privates.”
So sad. I urge all women if something happened to you, you must speak out.
“A Helluva High Note” hit shelves on April 26.
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