The former ‘Bachelorette’ star opened up about the sexual abuse she suffered as a child.
Getty Clare Crawley of The Bachelorette. Clare Crawley opened up about her experience with sexual abuse as a child. During an interview on “Red Table Talk: The Estefans,” the former “ Bachelorette” star revealed that a counselor at the Catholic school she attended sexually molested her. “I don’t think there was any counseling that was done,” Crawley said of the school employee. “It was a one-on-one time to be a predator.” In the interview, Crawley revealed to “Red Table Talk” hosts Gloria, Emily, and Lili Estefan that the abusive “counselor” was also a priest. “I grew up going to a Catholic school and I was the victim of a predator,” the Sacramento native said in the interview, per Us Weekly. “My parents looked at Catholic priests as — they held them on a pedestal.” She added that religion was “very deep” in her family’s roots and that her parents “did the best they could and reached out for the resources they could at the time and sent me to this priest.” Crawley, who held on to her secret for years, also said that predators “bank” on their victims staying “silent.” “These predators bank on us not saying anything and not opening our mouth and that gives them that power,” she said in the interview, per Hollywood Life.
