Carly Simon had sexual encounters with a boy in his teens when she was 7, she recently told People magazine.
“It was heinous,” she says. “It changed my view about sex for a long time.”
Simon revealed the molestations in her soon-to-be-released memoir “Boys in the Trees,” which comes out next week.
The 70-year-old ex-wife of James Taylor said she told her older sisters at the time, but they didn’t believe her.
They do now.
“Neither of them were at all aware of what had happened to me,” she said. “I told them the first year that it was happening, and they thought I was just trying to be one of the bigger girls.”
Simon said her mother must’ve known something was going on, because the boy was eventually banned from their home.
“I was devastated because I thought I was in a romance. Which I think happens to a lot of girls,” she says. “Your libido overpowers everything. You’re so libidinous even at the age of nine and 10. And sometimes there’s an outlet there. I bet in many more cases than we know about there is.”
Excuse me, while I go put my 7-year-old in a straitjacket.
Simon said her mother forced her to see a psychiatrist.
“I knew I had to keep it quiet,” she said. “I wanted to keep it quiet because I wanted to keep it going. And even when Dr. Frunzhaufer thought that he could get to the bottom of it with ‘Twinkle twinkle little star,’ I didn’t want to tell him. I said, ‘Yes he touched me on the chair. I was happy!'”
Simon made headlines earlier this week, when she revealed that her 1972 hit “You’re So Vain,” was about three men, one of whom was Warren Beatty.
Tony Hicks writes celebrity commentary for the Bay Area News Group. Contact him at Facebook.com/BayAreaNewsGroup.TonyHicks or Twitter.com/tonyhicks67
