Gabrielle Union on Sexual Harassment and Assault: 'The Floodgates Have Opened for White Women'
LatestGabrielle Union’s book We’re Going To Need More Wine was released in mid-October, just a few weeks after the Harvey Weinstein scandal broke open. In her book, she recounts her story of being sexually assaulted at 19, a story that unexpectedly became even more intensely relevant.
In an interview with the New York Times, Union explains how Weinstein and sharing experiences about sexual assault were a constant theme of her book tour. On the day it came out, Union told Robin Roberts in a promotional interview on Good Morning America that when she saw #MeToo trending, her arm went numb, which she explained was “post-traumatic stress syndrome from the rape.” Union says she heard hundreds of stories of abuse and assault from the women who came to see her on the tour, and she would weep in her hotel room at night.