President 's new press secretary was sexually abused by an older male cousin as a child and would hide in an attic to avoid him, according to her memoir. Karine Jean-Pierre, 44, the first black woman and openly gay person to become the press secretary, recounted the trauma's she faced in her 2019 memoir, Moving Forward, which included a tale of the abuse she suffered from an unnamed cousin. Details of the abuse Jean-Pierre endured re-emerged in a New York Times profile that detailed the hardships she faced earlier in life.
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