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2016. It’s been ten years this winter. Ten years since I was on tour in Minnesota, Michigan, and Wisconsin, doing my song and dance onstage in between being grabbed by the hair, dragged and held down, yelled at to stop disobeying the man in charge or I would face worse consequences. It was a season of scrambling bodies, sudden screaming, being afraid that a weapon would be drawn, that anyone who tried to intervene would be killed. I came to the terrifying realization that the

November 13 2022 In the epilogue of my memoir, I wrote, “I will never fully understand how I survived what I did. But it seems to me that...

July 22 2022 This Monday, my memoir, Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice was announced by PEOPLE magazine. It...

SEPTEMBER 22 2020 IT WAS SEPTEMBER NINTH and I was a bundle of nerves and excitement as I drank my piping hot morning coffee. The first...