Diana Nyad Shares Details of Personal Sexual Assault: ‘The Rage, Humiliation and the Shame Never Go Away’

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BALDWIN: “Good for you.

NYAD: “But there is a little hurt corner of that soul, the rage and the humiliation and the shame never go away. Trust me, they don't.

BALDWIN: “Why now share your story?”

NYAD: “For me it's not about why now. I started speaking up and went into the principal office age 21 after I graduated told the story. That coach was fired from that school. He went as the epidemic goes up the coast, got another job, molested at the next job, went up the coast and got another job.”

BALDWIN: “Unreal.”

NYAD: “It's the way it goes. But for me I've been telling this story all along. But now that we have the me to movement. I want to be in the middle of it and take the first step and be one of the leaders who says it's embarrassing. When you have to tell these stories to the police you have to start talking about where was the penis exactly. Was it erect or 18 inches away? Most people are mortified to have to come up with these terms. And they feel it was all their fault. It's just a twisted deal the whole way around. So it's not like why did I come up now, but the movement is happening, and I want to be a leader within the movement.”