Kara DioGuardi Admits She Was Molested
In addition to starring in a new Bravo reality show with Jewel (???), Kara DioGuardi (formerly of the American Idol DioGuardis) has a new memoir out called "A Helluva High Note." Yeah, I'm a little underwhelmed with that title too. If you're going to put out a memoir, you have to use a pun in its title. These are the rules of life. "DIOgraphy" and "Karafications" both would've worked. Something for Kara to consider if there's a second printing. But I digress...
In between chapters devoted to unraveling the mystery of Simon Cowell's hair part*, Kara writes about how she was repeatedly child touched as a girl and was later drugged and raped by a fairly known Spanish-speaking music producer. Is Paula Abdul going to drink the rest of that morning Vicodin tea, but I'm going to need a sip or two. Here's a few excerpts from HuffPo:
The pre-teen assaults came at the hands of a family friend who was in his late teens.
"On one particular day, he took me into the back shed of his house and put his hands all over my breasts and vagina," she remembers in the book. "I remember freezing and not knowing what to do."
Later, as she was moving up the music ladder, she fell victim to a music producer with bad intentions and a secret supply of date rape drugs.
"[W]ithin a few hours, he was on top of me, pumping, sweating, and speaking to me in Spanish, not a word of which I could understand," she writes of what was a terribly ill-fated business dinner.
This confirms what I've known all along: most sheds are nightmares houses where only terrible things occur. I don't think I've ever walked into a shed and thought to myself (over the Nightmare on Elm Street theme blasting in my head): "I want to be in here!!!" My mom refused to pay someone to tear our backyard shed down, so I tried to de-terrify it with old yellow paint, Strawberry Shortcake curtains and plastic flowers from Pic 'N Save, but it actually looked creepier afterwards. Like something out of The Lovely Bones.
Do we really need sheds? There has to be a better place where everyone can keep their dusty earthquake kits and rusted over hedge clippers.
* These chapters do not exist, unfortunately.
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I do like playing with tools in the shed...*whips out porn mags*
This chica has major songwriting credits. She could retire anytime and doesn't need to sell any books.
She also has a Poli Sci degree from Duke. Not sure why she let anyone slobber all over her.
I thought the promise of fame and fortune in return for a little action was always considered an acceptable date rape drug.
Submitted by But.Seriously.Folks on Tue, 04/19/2011 - 10:04am.
Who the hell was the producer?? Sergio Mendes?
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That's the more interesting question...
All these bitches (I'm looking at you,McKenzie Philips) who use this kind of trauma for publicity and to sell books are absolutely disgusting. Is it sad that it happened? Fuck, yeah. I wouldn't wish that on anyone. But something about this seems very opportunistic to me. I'm not saying they shouldn't talk about it...it just seems convenient that people sell this kind of story when they are on the verge of irrelevancy.
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Submitted by johnnysgirl on Tue, 04/19/2011 - 2:43pm.
See, sheds can be nice
A couple of British men have written whole books on men and sheds: how they're a respite, how men can have a brew and play with their tools (:)), etc. I can't look now, but one was called "Men and Sheds." Another came out in 2010, I think--I saw it reviewed in The Guardian.
Sadly, none of this is shocking. Sounds like the numerous stories told during one of my college's Take Back The Night rallies. The first time I went, I was shocked. After that, never surprised. A little sad but never surprised anymore. The world is just plain evil sometimes. More shocking that I haven't been sexually abused. But then it wouldn't surprise me if I had been and just repressed it. I'm not the most emotionally healthy either. But I take that back... I would be surprised.
Add basements and attics to that list.
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For your health.
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I am beyond hoffified
Can you say "desparate for publicity?"
When I was little and we visited my great-grandmother at her thatched cottage in Wales, she had a gnome statue at the end of her garden, partially covered with ivy. She would tell us that, if we had been good, that the fairies would have left us something, So we'd run down to see - and there would always be two little bags of candy on top of a tray the gnome statue held up.
Next to the statue was Granny's garden shed. A huge, ancient rhododendron grew next to it, and we would pick up the flowers it dropped and string them to make necklaces or put them on the ends of our fingers. The shed was also covered in ivy, and the wood was all mossy, and the shed was full of garden tools and wood-and-canvas folding chairs. It smelled wonderful, all mossy and musty. That was also where Granny kept her stilts, which we would spend the afternoon playing with in her little garden.
See, sheds can be nice :D
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I don't even know what to fucking say.
I never reported my attacker (he went to jail for other issues) because I didn't even recognize what he did to me was criminal...I was in denial for a couple years.
Just now am I at the "acceptance" period of it all. Do I wish I could put him away? I honestly don't fucking know at this point. *sigh* I never told anyone for at least a year.
I think this bitch is just whoring this out for fame and publicity so fuck her!
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Oh please, like anyone would want to touch her never mind fuck her.
Well said, clairey claire.
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I refreshed the page and my PENIS WAS GONE! -- SugarFreeRedBull, MicroPenis Advocate
Amen! My pet peeve too. Takes a speculum to 'see' a vag. Mostly its the mons pubis people are seeing. I learned the anatomical nomenclature of the female no-no in 6th grade sex education. Now I can be a female anatomy pedant. Interesting mons pubis photo in wicki--wonder how they decided to use that one.
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Submitted by MtlMama on Tue, 04/19/2011 - 10:15am.
I wish people would learn the difference between labia/vulva and vagina.
damn tmi...sorry but some things should be left in the therapists office...why do all celebutards insist on flaunting there dirty laundry...hell, I KNOW sexual abuse, and would never in a million years put it on front street like that...if you are not getting someone arrested for it, and if it is not being pursued legally, you need to feel it, and eventually let it go, not publicize it. These things are disturbing esp. to other victims...no need to rehash old pain...some may disagree, but dredging up past abuse is beyond painful and impossible to move ahead.
Ricki Lake - Poignant and utterly eloquent. As always.
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I wonder if there is a chapter about how Kara treated Ellen DeGeneres like crap on Idol last season. Talk about "Mean Girls".
"JUST SMILE LIKE A NORMAL FUCKED UP PERSON."
Charles Manson
I just love the visual of Michael K in his little backyard shed "hanging Strawberry Shortcake curtains.". As for her and her old boyfriends - do not care.
Never even heard of this woman.
"People are strange when you're a stranger...Faces look ugly when you're alone." ~ The Doors
What clairey claire said.
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I don't think, if you were a victim of abuse, that you have a duty to speak out and prosecute your attacker. If something like that happens to you, you deal with it in your own way. Some may decide to keep quiet and try to move on, and that is their right. BUT- if you choose that path, don't then come out and try to make money off it several years later. Don't make insinuations about 'well known' producers or TV presenters (Ulrika Johnsson!) that starts the public speculating about who may or may not have raped you and can ruin the careers of men who get 'fingered' while you sit there with your mouth shut, neither confirming or denying. Bad form.
This woman seemed like the world's most unpleasant person on American Idol. It doesn't surprise me that she has serious issues. I bet her book is still boring as fuck though.
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Submitted by Whamo on Tue, 04/19/2011 - 10:32am.
Submitted by Hekki on Tue, 04/19/2011 - 10:08am.
Submitted by BitchHouse: ""Kara writes about how she was repeatedly child touched as a girl and was later drugged and raped by a fairly known Spanish-speaking music producer."
Did she put him in jail or did fame get in the way?"
EXACTLY.
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I think she got a recording contract.
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EXACTLY again!!!
go away, you fucking nobody.
who gave this woman a book deal anyway?
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I think these stories are a little "pitchy".
"JUST SMILE LIKE A NORMAL FUCKED UP PERSON."
Charles Manson
Submitted by ricki lake on Tue, 04/19/2011 - 10:26am.
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BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!!!!
femguide, I agree with you in part.
If she was drugged and raped, she should have pressed charges. It may not have led to him serving any time or anything. But maybe other women would have come forward and her case would have been stronger. Or the NEXT woman's case would have been stronger.
She didn't want to piss off a powerful (??) man so he got away with it, and he certainly did it again and again and again.
We owe other women the courtesy of trying to shut these fucking perverts DOWN.
Primero, feliz cumpleanos, Chirio!
Second, as others have said, if this is true, it's terrible.
But on the other hand, nothing sells books like sex abuse stories. And why weren't charged pressed?
And the only time anybody has ever had his "hands all over" my vagina, was my yearly check-ups.
"JUST SMILE LIKE A NORMAL FUCKED UP PERSON."
Charles Manson
Submitted by femguide on Tue, 04/19/2011 - 10:08am.
Remember boys...DEAD MEN DON'T RAPE. Just sayin.
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Holy anger batman! ahhh..OK!?
Submitted by Hekki on Tue, 04/19/2011 - 10:08am.
Submitted by BitchHouse: ""Kara writes about how she was repeatedly child touched as a girl and was later drugged and raped by a fairly known Spanish-speaking music producer."
Did she put him in jail or did fame get in the way?"
EXACTLY.
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I think she got a recording contract.
I always wanted a shed as a child to have a club house to do exactly that; decorate it and paint it...Does that make me a creepy mollester? ::shudders::
That's what sheds were for weren't they? It was all about getting the cute little girl from down road over and, well trying to feel her up!
We had smokes and someones old man's playboy books in there to warm-em up. lol
*pre orders Chiri's tell all* I can't wait till she gets to the part about our threesome....with Bubbles
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"Basically, Murlonio means "from Rob's ass" in Dumfuckanese." MK
"Why won't you be perfect? Stop being so fat and lumpy. I fucking hate you, you cunt polenta."
Not to mention, common to D-grade butterface*cough**cough*anderbody attention whores everywhere, poor Ms. Kara's biggest problem in life seems to be that EVERYONE WANTS TO FUCK HER.
Why, even in pre-school, simply NOBODY could stop looking past her craft-store googly eyes and man nose to touch the titties that weren't even there.
And then, of course, breaking into the biz, she wanted everyone see her TALENT but alas, they were too busy RAPING HER FLAGRANTLY AND FELONIOUSLY to care, because we all know she is worth throwing your entire life away to get inside!!!
And, sad-sad, even now that she has made it, artists get her to write for them but then TRY TO FUCK HER when she does!!! Poor Kara.
Poor, poor unpregnant Kara. Sure, she might infertile cuz she be a dry, brittle bitch. And sure, she might be barren cuz she's a hag and she's like, 39. But most importantly, we know the #1 reason she's doing IV treatments is because ABSOLUTELY NOBODY WILL FUCK HER, NOT EVEN HER HUSBAND. Sad high school bitch, loudly and constantly proclaiming the one thing that she thinks make her special and that everybody else knows is insecure bullshit. So keep spinning wild tales of your epic rapability, Kara, and I'm sure we'll all forget you just as soon as we did last time. I just hope that, when you are raped, it is not only excruciating and traumatic but that it mangles your unholy womb before it manages to replicate your particularly unnatractive-in-the-face-and-body evil.
thank you for the bday wishes love you long time!
Must start my tell all biography. It is the new thing to do mmmmkay!!! Chapter 1: "A monkay in the lab shed is born" Ima make millions!!! It's a pop up book. gotta go zoom zoom!
Coma Caca!
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she writes songs for Britney, Hannah Montana, that kind of shit
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"Basically, Murlonio means "from Rob's ass" in Dumfuckanese." MK
"Why won't you be perfect? Stop being so fat and lumpy. I fucking hate you, you cunt polenta."
Submitted by angel_i on Tue, 04/19/2011 - 9:18am.
We had a backyard shed. One day a chicken took it over as it's home. I live in the city so that was hella weird and annoying cuz we used to play in there.
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OMFG I don't know why I find that so fucking funny! Random and bizarre. I wanna siggy it...
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I need you to be a buddy and get off the shed.
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Happy birthday to the coolest little monkey, Chiri!!!!! ♥
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If it's true, of course it's terrible. I guess I'm cynical because I am doubtful that it is true. She comes off as a desperate famewhore who would say anything for attention. I couldn't stand her on Idol.
i played in sheds as a kid w/ friends and one of them got their hands on a playgirl magazine, so we'd go to the shed and look at pictures of penises and men in thong underwear and we'd giggle. good times. i think my book would be more interesting than hers. they say she's a songwriter but what songs has she written? i don't care enough to google.
Where I grew up, sheds were for marijuana plants, meth labs, and beating your kids.
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WHAT!?!? is it Chiri's cupleanos? BREAK OUT THE CAPTAIN!!!!!! Happy Birthday to the mother of my baby and the love of my life! ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
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"Basically, Murlonio means "from Rob's ass" in Dumfuckanese." MK
"Why won't you be perfect? Stop being so fat and lumpy. I fucking hate you, you cunt polenta."
I wish people would learn the difference between labia/vulva and vagina.
If he had his hands "all over (her) vagina", then let's talk "hot dog down a hallway".
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HBD to Chirio. Make a wish!
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All of you commenting that it sounds normal for an older teenage to fondle the vagina of a PRE-TEEN need to get a clue. A preteen is like 11 years old. An "older teenager" is what, like 17 at least. That's gross and not right.
Who cares about her timing or intentions in telling about being raped....what's disturbing to me is that the Spanish producer guy probably got away with it and has probably done it many many times over. Men get away with rape and people who read celebrity blogs roll their eyes with contempt for the WOMAN. So inspiring. NOt.
Remember boys...DEAD MEN DON'T RAPE. Just sayin.
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Submitted by BitchHouse: ""Kara writes about how she was repeatedly child touched as a girl and was later drugged and raped by a fairly known Spanish-speaking music producer."
Did she put him in jail or did fame get in the way?"
EXACTLY.
Hmmm her story sounds...fakey.Also be warn of boat closets. I remember once when I was about 13 and a good guy friend named Mike took me to his boat and locked me in the closet sayin that I needed to look at what I will become someday wtf??!! there were playboy magazines all over. I guess my eyes are not innocent because of that day. Molested eyesight. And that spanish music producer pumping sweating shit sounds like another episode of Jersey Shore. bitch needs to step away from reality shows...oh nevermind. p.s: happy birthday to myself lol :D
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This NOBODY has published a BOOK?
Not only that, the title implies it is a book about taking lots of drugs, which suggests it could be mildly interesting, whereas it is a book about singing, which proves it could not. Oh, and being "molested".
Like I'm gonna buy this junk when ASHLEY JUDD'S poor-me manifesto has just hit the shelves! My budget for ghostwritten dreck by self-important, whiny whores is limited to one pile of garbage per quarterly.
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"When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat."
So is this supposed to excuse her for being a shitty judge on American Idol?