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In 2016, retirement gymnastRachael Denhollander was thefirst lady To formally accuse the old Olympic doctorLarry Nassar Sexual abuse. Over the next two years, more than 360 gymnastsAccused Nassar of sexual abuseincludingAll five athletes on the 2012 Women's Olympic Gymnastics team. While some were frank from their experience, others, likeMcKayla Maroney, tried to pass quietly after being advanced. Recently, however, in a declaration in support ofBritney SpearsMaroney decided to discuss frankly to discuss his abuse in the hands of Nassar, the toll he took and his frustration with the way the media accounted for it. To see what Maroney had to say about how his experience connects with the #Freebritney movement in a new Instagram, read.

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On July 26, Maroney, 25, spoke about his abuse in Nassar's hands on Instagram, three years after his first step forward. "According to my experience,Talking about abuse is extremely exhausting physically, mentally and emotionally, "wrote the Olympic gymnast on Instagram. She then discussed the role that the media has played in her life since. After being advanced about his abuse during ainterview withToday In 2018, Maroney said, "I hated the depressing tone my life, and how the media accounted for me." She added that she "never wanted to be seen as a victim" but just wanted Nassar in prison and the people who allowed the abuse to continue to take into account their actions.

The Maroney Declaration comes then that the women's gymnastics team competes at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo and the world and the legal system continues to re-evaluatePreservative of Spears, who had his father and other numbers named for the control of his finance and physically for years. In the pole, Maroney reflects the commonalities between her experiences of her and spears, and she tears a spears shirt in the accompanying photos. "Britney's story resonates so much with me because like Britney, I also had to" simulate the fake until you do "survive my 2012 Olympic games, revealed Maroney.

Maroney explained that theFraming Britney Spears Documentary, which brought the problems with the veracity of spears in light at the beginning of 2021, shows that "the media are enormously to blame" for his suffering. "To date, the media intimidate celebrities and athletes with dramatic clipbait stories and false reports for their advantage. Do not worry about everything they affect the person or family life," said Maroney. She added that "it's time to keep the media responsible for the damage they create".

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As spears, Maroney wrote that at the 2012 Olympic Games, she was "just tried to fulfill his dream, but" she added: "I had an abuse come from many angles that I did not understand how to deal with 15. I had to delete it and I had to minimize it, just to spend the day. "

In 2018, when she spoke first of the abuse, Maroney said Nassar was starting to abuse him at 13 and hundreds of times. Later this year, Maroney, with more than 150 other victims, wrote impact statements that have been read before being convicted. "It happened in London before my team and I won the gold medal, and it happened before I won my silver medal," Maroney wrotehis statement.

She also described a moment of traumatization especially for her. "For me, the most frightening night of my life arrived when I was 15 years old. I stole all day and the night with the team to go to Tokyo. He gave me a sleeping pill for The flight, and the next thing I know, I was alone with him in his hotel room to get a "treatment". I thought I was going to die that night, "Maroney wrote.

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In his Instagram position, Maroney expressed his sentence to recognize and discuss this darker part of his life emptied his usual character. "If you know me or you follow me, you have probably taken back that I'm naturally just a positive and sparkling person, who is more reluctant to optimism and have faith because that's what makes me happy" , wrote Maroney. "Then call abusers and remaining on all the negative black pieces of my past felt extremely wrong for me."

Maroney added that even if she wanted to "move on" and return to his usual self, she knew she had to push to speak against Nassar. "I needed to learn the power of my voice, from my borders and when to be resilient," she wrote.

The former gymnast also congratulated the spears to speak. "She deserves the rest of her life to heal in peace or do what she wants," Maroney wrote on Instagram.

She then shot a comparison between people who control the life of Spears and everyone has allowed elite gymnastics to persist. "People who control it are criminals and aggressors, like the US gymnastics and USOC [Olympic Olympic Committee US and Paralympic] uses me and their money athletes, but did not care about us Protect, "she concluded, adding the hashtag #freebritney.

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