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May 29, 2005
AMOS; 'MY DAUGHTER HELPED ME OVERCOME MY RAPE ORDEAL'
American singer TORI AMOS credits motherhood with helping her overcome the trauma of being raped at gunpoint - because she didn't want her daughter to be raised by a troubled parent.
The CORNFLAKE GIRL was attacked when she was 22, by a fan in Los Angeles she had given a life to.
But she forced herself to come to terms with the ordeal after giving birth to NATASHYA, now four years old, because she refused to let her rapist turn her into a depressed, withdrawn parent.
She explains, "Motherhood has healed me. Several nights a week, every week, after the LA incident, I would have nightmares.
"I would see somebody come into the room, coming to harm me. It was always life and death - often I would die.
"But I worked with this English therapist, and when I became pregnant I began to fight back because I didn't want to be a miserable mother."
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May 31, 2005
TORI AMOS IS RULED BY THE ENGLISH WEATHER
American singer TORI AMOS has adapted perfectly to life in England - as she finds the unpredictable climate is far more inspiring than in the temperate United States.
And the CORNFLAKE GIRL singer, 41, who moved to the stormy south-west region of Cornwall in 1998, is fascinated by the way the elements "dictate to everyone".
She says, "I wouldn't have chosen to move to Cornwall, but now I wouldn't unchoose it.
"I moved to Notting Hill, London in 1991 when my record company had the idea the British would be more open than the Americans to what I was doing. Husband and I moved to Cornwall after we got married.
"I've never been any place like it - the land and the weather dictate to everyone."
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