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Gloria Estefan opened up about her sexual abuse at the age of 9

Gloria Estefan recently opened up about her sexual abuse story, at the age of 9, by someone who her mother trusted.

She said, “He was family, but not close family. He was in a position of power because my mother had put me in his music school and he immediately started telling her how talented I was and how I needed special attention, and she felt lucky that he was focusing this kind of attention on me,”

Estefan spoke of it at the Red Table Talk: The Estefans. The episode featured Clare Crawley too who experienced sexual abuse at the hands of a priest, as stated in NBC news.