Girl 27
July 17, 2009 @ 3:10 pm by NobleI watch a lot of documentaries about atrocities, and very few are more sickening than this one. A group of young women are tricked into attending an MGM stag party thinking they are auditioning for a role. One young woman who was raped and humiliated at that party attempts to get justice, and all of Hollywood scrambles to bury the story and discredit the victim.
Today I read an interview with Debbie Gibson, where she talks about the difficulties growing up as a young woman in the showbiz scene:
“It is very disheartening that there are so many older men that prey on young performers,” Gibson told Tarts in an exclusive interview. “The younger you are, the more innocent you are, the more wholesome your image is, the weirder the fans become in terms of older men wanting to corrupt little girls. Even the way the paparazzi stalk the younger artists is very different from following around adults – I find that very disturbing.”
But what is even more disturbing than dirty male “fans” was the fact that Gibson’s own peeps were often the ones on the prey.
“There would be older male record executives trying to take me to parties by myself but my mom always be like ‘she’s a sixteen year old girl, she’s not going into an atmosphere with over 21-year-olds and alcohol!’ I hadn’t had enough life experience for those situations,” Gibson admitted. “You grow up thinking ‘everyone loves me’, but everyone who you are paying loves you. They are going to love you this year, but they are going to love the next person who makes them millions the next year. I was protected enough so that my childhood could be preserved as much as it could be in the circumstance.”
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