Searching for Angela Shelton
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| Wed, 10-12-2005 - 10:35am |
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This Woman is amazing and a friend. I am also a survivor and a passionate, rabid anti abuse advocate. Please check it out, order the movie. She also has a new safety video called Safe Side Super Chick in conjunction with John Walsh and Julie Clarke, who founded Baby Einstein. Here's a little summary, but the movie is so powerful, so very profound and full of hope. Peace, Sarah
As a Hollywood screenwriter, model and actress, Angela Shelton lives much of her life on film.
But for years, this cover girl has covered a dark secret – an unexposed snapshot of her past.
“It was a door that you shut. And just zip it and don’t talk about it again,” says Angela, who always knew that she would have to face her painful past one day. She just didn’t know how. Angela’s idea was to hit the road in a rented RV, and try to meet as many women as she could who were also named Angela Shelton.
Why? She had a hunch that many of those women would share something else besides just a name – something much more personal.
What did she think she was going to find? “In the back of my mind, I thought I was gonna find that the statistics aren’t really right, and that there are more women than you really think are being abused,” says Angela. “But I didn’t really want to find that!”
Angela knew about the subject of sexual abuse well, because that was her dark secret. As a child, she says, her father molested her.
“I lied for my dad the whole time. I’ve been making excuses for him since I was 8 years old,” says Angela. “I’m on a mission. I’m on a crusade and I cannot stop, because a lot of people said, ‘You’re an actress, you’re in Hollywood. You’re gonna reveal that you were molested as a child? Are you crazy? There goes your career.' But, honestly, I don’t care.”
As Angela’s social experiment rolled across the country, her camera rolled, too. She said she contacted 76 women with the name Angela Shelton, and she says they drove 14,000 miles in 57 days: “I left messages for 55 of them. I spoke to 32, and out of the 32, I think it was 17 that we met.”
