At just five years old, she was sexually abused by a close relative. Now she wants to help others who have been victimized – and she is taken aback by the response. — One girl said that “thanks to the podcast I have become free,” she says. Monica Ek was a guest on Nyhetsmorgon this summer and told her story about the sexual abuse that started when she was only five years old. “I was exposed by the person I loved the most and who was supposed to be my greatest security, a very close relative,” she says. Has felt bad all her life. It laid the foundation for the rest of her life, she says. She was exposed again in her teens and suffered from both depression and eating disorders. — It created who I have been for almost my entire life. I became a person without self-worth. I had no value at all, it was under the soles of my feet. I felt bad my whole life, she says in Nyhetsmorgon. But at the age of 65, she found her calling – she wants to help others who have been victims of sexual abuse. — I want to open up all the doors that have been closed all these years! Now the women can tell their stories – but also what a dignified life they have today. And that’s what I also have, she says. Wants to place the blame in the right place She has already written a book about her experiences and now she is also starting a podcast. In the first episode, she talks to the doctor and researcher Christoffer Rahm, who lectures on pedophilia and sexual deviations. He says that he misses the children’s voices in the debate and believes that Monica is in the way for this. Monica is grateful for the great response she got to the podcast and she gets emotional when she tells: — One girl in particular said that “thanks to the podcast I have become free”… And it’s not just her, the others say they feel great afterwards . They must be seen, they must not be silent and ashamed! All of us children who are vulnerable, we learn that it is our fault. Now guilt and shame must rest on the perpetrator. We bear no guilt – we are just children, says Monica. See the entire interview in the clip above.
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Podcasts about sexual abuse – in tears over the great response
