"Men are weak. Period." Lenore Abergel | Photography: Eyal Nevo.
Former Miss World, Lenore Abergel, speaking in an interview with Yedioth Ahronoth, "as she did not speak before. About the rape: "We can not keep anything in the stomach. It's like opening a wound and it heals." For repentance: "I have not seen the light and angels, religion just makes me feel good." And the anticipated release of the year of the man who raped her: "I'm not afraid of him. He would be afraid to mess with me"
Beauty queens usually announce that they want to bring about world peace. Declare, unable to sustain. Lenore Abergel assumed real task much much more personal, and maintained. In the 15 years since she had been raped broke the conspiracy of silence of victims of sexual assault - and interview sheet "7 Days" to be published on Friday is unpacking more cargo weighing on her heart.
In 1998 she picked Abergel (33), then a young woman of 18 from Netanya, the honorable title of all models: "Miss World". Smiles betrayed the fact that a few weeks earlier raped by Shlomo Nur, a travel agent who was supposed to protect her while filming Modeling in Milan. Now she is in a different place in life - after repented, she married agent players Oron Halfon, became a mother of twins Nathaniel Odell and a half year old and two-year-old Abigail and completed his internship as a lawyer, and she says the first time on the vicissitudes of life and that painful event. "My recommendation is to talk at the age of 80, because if not, this disease is growing," says Abergel interview to "7 days". "It's like taking the rapist on the back, make him a sack of flour. Forbidden to keep anything in the stomach. Beginning it hurts, but then it's like opening a wound and it heals."
Five years ago she opened Abergel - with the encouragement of a close friend, producer Moti Reif - a website where women from around the world were asked to tell their story in their own rape. The goal was to create the basis for a documentary in which a former Miss World will hold a campaign to raise awareness of rape and sexual harassment throughout the world. Thousands of calls received, including China, Japan and Africa. "What we have chosen the most difficult stories and came up to them with a camera crew," says Abergel.
"Track of Miss World - the true story of Lenore Abergel" will be broadcast in two weeks on Channel 2 ("Network", January 20). Two of the women who get interviewed him are surprisingly two Hollywood stars that reveal for the first time to rape. One is Joan Collins ("Dynasty"), the other - Fran Drescher ("The Nanny"). "I think they actually agreed to talk with me because we are small, with a film funded by donations," says Abergel. "They believe that we have a genuine intention to illuminate the word 'rape'. Including journey with the women strengthened me and showed me that I was not alone. Woman anywhere is a woman. Did not matter how she looks and what she wears. They all have the same pain. Them all identified innocence. Fran was an extreme example that you never know what lies behind the smile of someone ".
One trip lectured at Princeton, and escorted her there son - her husband Halfon, later husband and father of her children. "It was the first time he came to me, which is very strengthened me it was," says Abergel. "I never thought he would leave me because of what he heard."
Still, some men in the film are sometimes a bit helpless in front of you, facing your sorrows.
"Men are weak, period. Well no man would want to know such a thing happened to his wife., And what he really needs to know the details?'s Just painful."
Abergel interview reveals that underwent psychotherapy helped her recover. "I highly recommend the treatment. I was treating two, just for a woman but it is not binding. Treat yourself to look at things from the side. When I look at the rape of experiences I've had, I realized that it does not define me. RAPE It's not who I am . I am the wife of, mother, actress and a lawyer. "
The meeting was held at her home on the 17th floor of one of the new luxury towers that grew in Netanya facing the sea. Nursery old twins. Living room - fresh baby. Way to bring them lasted a little more than planned. "We tried to conceive for 11 months, and everything was fine, and yet it did not happen. Was difficult. Prayed a lot and I continued to believe it would be OK. Now, with all substitutions and feedings, I still do not pretend I'm a mother. When my son calls me mom! ' I look back and see who is going., But it is clear that changes. Suddenly from a story about the crying child, whether it's sad or if he was happy. Their becoming kitschy thing on earth. "
Repentance changed her life no less. Who raised an eyebrow wondering if life is passing wave, Season Abergel firmly: "I feel like I won. Did not from seeing the light and angels. Religion makes me feel good. Realized it my way, and I have so many more things to work on: the My nerves, the shut up sometimes. "
In her work Prosecutor's Office, where she specialized in, I happened Abergil engage rape cases. There also had to hold back sometimes, disconnect personal trauma. "I'm not as Lenore Hnokmt' and I was not known as such. Was professional. Sometimes I went home with a sinking feeling caused injustice here and could not do anything."
In a few months your rapist is released from prison after 16 years in jail full, imposed upon him because of you. You are afraid of this moment, look for you, you will encounter on the street?
"It does nothing for me. Has so many people on the street, so that where I am not afraid. After 16 years in jail I'm sure that it was me he would be afraid to mess, because he knows that it will return to jail, and he probably would not want to go back there again., I was discharged long ago and did not give him the pleasure did not release me. "
