CELEB REFRESH: Abigail Breslin Was Diagnosed With PTSD After She Was Raped

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Abigail Breslin bravely opened up on Instagram a couple weeks ago about her sexual assault.

In her post, she wrote: “You are not obligated to have sex with someone that you’re in a relationship with. Dating is not consent. Marriage is not consent,” and captioned it “I knew my assailant.”

*trigger warning⚠️*

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Now, Abigail made another confession via Instagram after a commenter said that “reported rapes are the only rapes that count.”

“I was diagnosed with PTSD a year and a half ago. I have made a lot of progress since the event occurred, but I won’t pretend it isn’t something I struggle with,” she wrote. “I still have flashbacks, I still get nightmares, I still jump when somebody touches me unexpectedly, even if it’s my best friend tapping me on the shoulder.”

She also said that she never reported the assault to police because she “didn’t want to view myself as a ‘victim’ so I surprised it and pretended it never happened.”

Abigail also added that she was in a relationship with her alleged rapist and feared no one would believe her or that he would hurt her again. “I knew how hurt my family and friends would be after finding out and I didn’t want to put them thru that.”