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A 'Tale' Of Child Sex Abuse Was Inspired By Filmmaker's Real-Life Trauma

The HBO film The Tale stars Laura Dern as a woman who realizes later in life that a relationship she had at 13 years old with two adults was child sexual abuse. HBO hide caption

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A 'Tale' Of Child Sex Abuse Was Inspired By Filmmaker's Real-Life Trauma

"We never talk about how a child can love his or her abuser," Jennifer Fox says. "If we don't understand that, we don't understand how abuse happens." Her new HBO film is The Tale.

A 'Tale' Of Child Sex Abuse Was Inspired By Filmmaker's Real-Life Trauma

The HBO film The Tale stars Laura Dern as a woman who realizes later in life that a relationship she had at 13 years old with two adults was child sexual abuse. HBO hide caption

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