Kara DioGuardi Reveals She Was Molested and Date Raped

American Idol Kara DioGuardi Platinum Hit

10:33 am, April 19th, 2011

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Kara DioGuardi reveals she was molested as a child and later date raped by a prominent music producer.

In her candid new memoir “A Helluva High Note,” the singer-songwriter and former “American Idol” judge says she was repeatedly molested by a teenage family friend when she was just 11 years old.

“I remember freezing and not knowing what to do,” writes DioGuardi about one incident.

In 2000, after her music industry career began to take off, DioGuardi was also date raped by a “fairly known producer” following a friendly dinner.

“[W]ithin a few hours, he was on top of me, pumping, sweating, and speaking to me in Spanish, not a word of which I could understand,” she recalls.

She says she never revealed what had happened because she feared professional repercussions.

During a songwriting trip, DioGuardi further endured sexual harassment by a “hugely successful artist” that included Russian pornography and strippers performing sex acts.

The musician’s frank memoir also discusses her difficulties getting pregnant during her last season on “American Idol,” which DioGuardi says led her to ask producers to release her from her contract.

“I wanted a child and there was no way I could get pregnant under the stress of eighteen-hour work days and live TV,” she explains.

DioGuardi is set to serve as a judge on Bravo’s new “Platinum Hit” music competition series.

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