After decades of silence about a sexual assault, speaking out is helping this woman heal [Video]

For nearly two decades, Sue Lawson didn’t tell a soul about what she says happened to her in 1994 after a night out with friends in London.

“It was very dark. I was very alone,” said Lawson, now 49 and living in Quebec. “I was very lost.” 

Lawson was in second year university at Western University, studying kinesiology, when she says a friend of her roommate raped her. She kept silent for 17 years, when she finally told her husband. 

“It was a relief, a feeling of no longer being alone. I felt I had the love and support beside me all the way,” Lawson said. “I had someone standing in front of me, beside me and behind me, and that kept me alive and kept me going.” 

It’s been a long road. 

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Her first marriage broke up in part because she couldn’t talk about what was troubling her, Lawson said. 

After telling her second …