Actress Kim Novak Revisits Controversial 'Rape' Remark

After making major media waves in January with her use of the word “rape” to qualify how she felt upon hearing snippets from the score of Vertigo in this year’s Best Picture winner The Artist, actress Kim Novak has now tried to add context to her remarks. And that context is shocking.

Novak told AP reporter Derrik J. Lang yesterday via phone interview that she did not use the term lightly, and that she was in fact raped as a younger woman.

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