‘I lost a bit of my soul’, Tiffany Haddish Recounts Police Assault
Tiffany Haddish opens up about being raped by a police officer in training when she was a teenager, sharing heartbreaking details of the trauma it caused for years.
Speaking to Vivica A. Fox on her podcast Hustling With Vivica A. Fox, Haddish says because of the experience, which occurred when she was 17; she “lost a little bit of my soul.”
“Like I wasn’t even taken advantage of, that motherf**ker just took me,” she said. The Girls’ Trip actress described the assault as a “traumatizing” experience that “messed” up her perception of sex and relationships.
Haddish says in the years after her rape, she habitually dated members of the law enforcement community. She said she subconsciously hoped they would help her get revenge on her assailant.
“I dated a police officer, a judge, a lawyer,” Haddish said. “I dated several different kinds of dudes, thinking, ‘Oh if I date them, they’ll love me; they’ll try to help me with my crusade of getting justice for my family and myself’. But they was like, ‘nah.,'” she reveals.
“I had to learn revenge is not really where it’s at. Really the true revenge is in your success,” she shared. “I don’t know why I thought these police would do something to this other police officer because he took advantage of me.”
On the podcast, Haddish went on to talk about other bad experiences she has had with police officers; including having a policeman pull a gun on her.
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Tiffany Haddish has been quite vocal in the Black Lives Matter movement and has been joining protests. The murder of George Floyd and other unarmed black people by police left many, including Haddish, mad, fed up and hurt.
“I try to laugh and figure out a way to make it funny. It’s really hard,” Haddish said. “I got PTSD watching my friends being killed by the police.
“It’s scary, you shouldn’t be scared to be in America”.
“It’s supposed to be the land of the free, the home of the brave and you’re supposed to be able to have a pursuit of happiness. We’re just trying to pursue that you don’t get killed today.”
But Haddish did say these protests felt different than previous protests on police brutality. “There’s definitely been a transition, people are waking up. People can see now and people’s hearts are opening up,” she said.
