Brown Sista

Actress Gabrielle Union is featured on the cover of the June 30th. edition of Page Six Magazine and opens up about her career, why her marriage failed and why she blames the gossip blogs for keeping her dateless. Gabrielle, who is starring alongside Eddie Murphy is the new movie ‘Meet Dave”, continues to deny rumors that she is dating good friend Derek Jeter as well as Kid Rock and says internet gossip blogs paint her love life as being more active than it is, which she believes causes potential suitors to run the other way. Rarely talked about, Gabrielle also delves into the brutal rape and beating she endured that left her unrecognizable and hospitalized for months.

Interview Snippet:

She makes jokes about her strength and what she is and isn’t capable of, but Gabrielle’s been through a lot in her 35 years—including a devastating attack. As a 19-year-old college student, she was raped at gunpoint and beaten beyond recognition during a night shift working at a Payless ShoeSource. “I blanked out and had an out-of-body experience, like I was hovering above seeing this ­horrible thing happen to someone else—not me,” says Gabrielle, who got through the trauma partly because of an episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show she had seen days before on victims of violent crimes. After her ordeal, she immediately turned to UCLA’s Rape Treatment Center. “It gave me my life back,” she says. “My dignity and self-esteem were gone and they helped me find them again. That’s why I now lobby for state legislatures across the country to help raise funds and awareness for rape crisis centers, and I speak to college girls about what happened to me. My goal is to never hear the words ‘me too’ from someone after I say ‘I was raped.’ ”

Read more of Gabrielle’s interview -> here and check out more pics from her exclusive photo shoot with the magazine on the pages below.

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