Miss USA hints at childhood abuse
Thursday, February 1st, 2007In a live confessional, Tara Conner tells TODAY’s Matt Lauer that she has confronted the abuser but won’t elaborate on the nature of the trauma.
Fresh out of rehab, beauty queen Tara Conner said Thursday that she is confronting her demons – alcohol and drugs, and an unidentified person who may have “betrayed” her as a child – but still believes she can be an effective representative of the Miss USA pageant and help others face their addictions.
“For me, it all had the same effect. I was an equal-opportunity user,” Conner said on TODAY in her first live-television interview since treatment. “Nothing fazed me. I would take what I could get because I was trying to mask so many things that I felt inside.”…
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