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Oprah lived with her mother from the age of six until she was thirteen. She was raped by a cousin when she was nine and later molested by a male friend of her mother’s an also by an uncle. Oprah never told anyone about the abuse. Instead she locked it up inside her and rebelled. She began experimenting with sex and drugs in her early teens. Then when she was fourteen she became pregnant and gave birth to a stillborn baby boy. This event devastated her and she vowed to turn her life around. She went to live with her father and under his stern guidance she found discipline, stability and the inspiration to excel at school.