{"id":3832,"date":"2017-08-02T16:25:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T13:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/?p=3832"},"modified":"2017-08-02T16:25:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T13:25:50","slug":"akas-mom-lynn-forbes-opens-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/akas-mom-lynn-forbes-opens-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"AKA\u2019S Mom &#8216;Lynn Forbes&#8217; opens up about abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3833\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3833\" class=\"wp-image-3833 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Lynn-Forbes.jpg\" alt=\"Lynn Forbes\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Lynn-Forbes.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Lynn-Forbes-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3833\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lynn Forbes and her son rapper AKA.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rapper, AKA\u2019s mom, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/tag\/lynn-forbes\/\">Lynn Forbes<\/a>, has launched a self-titled blog, in which she has recounted the story of the abuse she endured as a child.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In her very first blog post, Lynn tells the story of how a very close friend of her parents sexually abused her when she was a child.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMy Childhood Sexual Abuse had far reaching effects on my life. It has never let go of my throat, haunting me into adulthood,\u201d the post begins.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She goes on to say that she has had to carry this secret with her, but she has now chosen to tell her story in the hopes of finding healing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/nomzamo-mbatha-pens-massive-endorsement-deal-loreal\/\">Nomzamo Mbatha pens massive endorsement deal with L\u2019Or\u00e9al<\/a><\/strong><\/p><div class=\"a17b8461aa8852e9804489a09abe77ee\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6320557125022566\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Responsive Ad -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6320557125022566\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1510235538\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe sexual abuse which I have suffered as a child has remained with me until I found the courage to forgive myself for something which I was never to blame for in the first place,\u201d the post reads.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But it wasn&#8217;t until two years ago that reality of what had happened hit Lynn and forced her to take stock of it all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although she does not reveal what triggered this journey of telling her story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/tag\/lynn-forbes\/\">Lynn<\/a> says that she knew that \u201cthe time had come to find my voice and speak up about what had happened to me as a child\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lynn does not share exact details of her sexual abuse, but she says that she is ready to open up about it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI am an Adult Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse and as I begin to share my story with you, I ask that you stop, listen and hear my tears,\u201d the post concludes.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rapper, AKA\u2019s mom, Lynn Forbes, has launched a self-titled blog, in which she has recounted the story of the abuse&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Lynn-Forbes.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}