“The Nanny” actress Fran Drescher is continuing to share how being brutally attacked during a home invasion in 1985 changed her life.
According to a 2002 CNN story, the actress told Larry King that two men had been convicted and sent to prison after breaking into her home, stealing her treasure and raping her and her husband. friend at gunpoint when she was in her late 20s. The emotional scars lingered long after.
“After that, I didn’t really understand my feelings or my hurt,” Drescher, now 61, told InStyle in an essay published Tuesday. “I never wanted to appear ‘weak’ so I just buried it and moved on. For the next 15 years, I focused on working harder, making people happy, and being a caregiver.” . I’m busy with ‘The Nanny’ and I live in an oxygen-depleted atmosphere of other people telling me how hard-working and kind I am.”
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Drescher was diagnosed with uterine cancer in 2000.
“It was strange — and poetic — that my reproductive organs had cancer,” she continued. “But that in itself is also an amazing affirmation that pain will find its way to the right place in the body if you don’t address it. Because I didn’t pay attention to my own weaknesses, the pain because Being raped was imprinted on me.” in my belly. No one else around me has cancer. It was a rude awakening.”
Moving forward, Drescher wants other women to learn from her mistakes and take proactive control of their lives.
“Don’t ignore something and hope it will go away or send yourself to an early grave because you feel like you have too much to do for others,” she says. “It’s a trap that women often fall into. I’m here to say, ‘Stop it!’ ”
