Ms. Union nodded, and soon everyone in the room was low-humming to Tina Turner’s classic “What’s Love Got to Do With It?”Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken? End-of-the-line people were especially raw, Ms. Union said, as if their traumatic event just happened. Ms. Union would weep too, in her hotel room every night on the tour, thinking of what some of these women had suffered. Ms. Union said she will sometimes claim “gastrointestinal issues” in the bathroom just to get a few minutes alone. “Post-traumatic stress syndrome from the rape,” Ms. Union said on the air, visibly shaken, her mouth quivering.

Source: New York Times December 05, 2017 22:34 UTC