When the lines get crossed into sexuality, first of all it’s very hard to know what’s going on.
That’s what grooming is: The adult befriends a child, makes them feel special, makes them feel loved. JF: I think it’s very hard to admit that someone betrayed you to the degree that child sexual abuse is betrayal. Marie Claire: As you started revisiting your past and realizing that the experience was something different than you recalled, was it hard to come to grips with that? I felt like I had to leave my name there so that audiences had a face that they could reference, and reviewers would have to talk to me if they had doubts.
Jennifer Fox: It was really practical for me in the sense that I felt if I didn’t leave my real name in it, many audiences might question if it was even possible that a young girl could love a person who abuses them.