Ireland Baldwin reveals she was raped ‘unconscious’ as a teenager and tells her abortion story

Warning: This story contains language related to rape and sexual abuse.

Ireland Baldwin tells her story of being a victim of rape and having an abortion later in her life.

In a TikTok video she posted on Sunday titled “I’m here for you,” the 26-year-old model spoke about her own experiences in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision, Roe v. Wade Friday.

She began with a disclaimer: “Before I share what I’m about to share, I feel it is not anyone’s responsibility to speak out if they don’t feel comfortable doing so. I’ve seen countless TikToks in the last 24 hours of women telling other women that it’s their responsibility to share their abortion story and I find that intrusive and wrong and just not true.”

“I’m only sharing my story now because I want other women to feel supported and loved, whether they want to share their own story or not,” she noted.

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Baldwin then revealed: “I was raped as a teenager and was completely unconscious when it happened. It changed the course of the rest of my life.”

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Baldwin went on to say that she told “nobody” except a nurse who treated her shortly after the incident, not even her then-boyfriend, and not even her parents, Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin.

“I kept this secret to myself for years and because I did so, it caused a lot of suffering and pain to me and the people I love,” she said.

The model said she found herself in a “downward spiral” because she “carried so much pain and guilt for so long” and as a result “lost control of her life.”

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“I drank a lot more, I partied a lot more, I self-medicated, I had other abusive and toxic relationships and friendships. I did pretty much anything to distract myself,” she continued.

“Seeing so many other brave women share their stories made me think about what my life would have been like if I had gotten pregnant and had to raise a baby during everything I was going through at the time,” Baldwin said. “Having medical resources, money and support that many women don’t have access to. It would have just been traumatic and impossible.”

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Later in her life, Baldwin said, she unexpectedly became pregnant by her then-boyfriend, with whom she was “very unhappy,” “and he made it pretty clear that he didn’t want children or marriage. He hardly wanted a serious relationship.”

“I chose to have an abortion because I know exactly what it feels like to be born between two people who hated each other,” she said.

When asked if she could have had the baby and given it up for adoption, Baldwin said “maybe, maybe not,” “but the decision to raise a baby without my own financial security, without a loving and supportive partner, that would not have been possible for me.”

“I chose myself and I would choose myself again. It’s your life, it’s your decision,” she concluded.

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Abortion rights activists protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, DC, following the overturning of the Roe v. Wade ruling on June 25, 2022

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Roe v. WadeThe Supreme Court’s landmark 1973 decision that gave women in every state the right to an abortion was overturned by the Supreme Court on Friday.

The 6-3 ruling overturns nearly 50 years of legal precedent and will completely change the landscape of women’s reproductive rights by giving individual states the power to decide whether to allow the procedure. It is estimated that nearly half the country will enact near-total bans in the coming months.

Since that decision, states such as Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri and South Dakota have already banned abortions after enacting so-called “trigger bans” that governors enacted following the Supreme Court ruling.

Since then, protests have broken out across the country and President Joe Biden has spoken out against the ruling, which he called “the realization of an extreme ideology and a tragic mistake by the Supreme Court.”

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