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Mena Suvari Says She Was Repeatedly Sexually Abused Starting at 12.

Mena Suvari is opening up about her painful past. In a new interview with People, the American Beauty star says she was the victim of repeated sexual abuse when she was between the ages of 12 and 20, and turned to drugs to escape.

The 42-year-old actress has a new memoir, The Great Peace: A Memoir, in which she talks about her trauma. Suvari says she was first raped when she was 12 years old and in the sixth grade by a friend of one of her older brothers.

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When she was 15 years old, Suvari decided to pursue acting and says she felt like she didn’t have a choice when one of her managers wanted to have a sexual relationship.

At 16, Suvari met a man who became her boyfriend, and says that he abused her sexually and emotionally during their three-year relationship. She says he pressured her to participate in threesomes and pick up other women for him. Suvari acknowledges that she turned to drugs to cope.

Suvari rose to fame thanks to her breakout role in 1999’s American Beauty, and eventually broke it off with Tyler and began going to therapy and stopped taking drugs. She is now happily married to Mike Hope, her third husband, and they welcomed their son, Christopher, in April.

“It was the first time I felt I wanted to have a family with someone,” she says of Hope, whom she married in August 2018. “I found out I was pregnant when I finished writing the memoir.”

ET spoke to Suvari in January, and she opened up about being pregnant at 41.

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