Singer Carly Simon said in a new interview that she had sexual encounters with a teenager when she was only 7 years old.
“It was heinous,” she told People magazine in an interview just before the release of her memoir. “It changed my view about sex for a long time.”
Simon, 70, told the magazine that her older sisters didn’t believe her story until she showed them a copy of her memoir. They thought she was just trying to be a big girl, she said. Simon’s mother did hear about it and had the boy banned from their house for a summer, which had devastated her.
“I was devastated because I thought I was in a romance. Which I think happens to a lot of girls,” Simon said. “Your libido overpowers everything! You’re so libidinous even at the age of nine and ten. And sometimes there’s an outlet there. I bet in many more cases than we know about there is.”
Even when she saw a child psychologist, she tried to keep it a secret. “And even when Dr. Frunzhaufer thought that he could get to the bottom of it with 'Twinkle twinkle little star,' I didn’t want to tell him. I said, 'Yes he touched me on the chair. I was happy!’” she told People.
On Wednesday, People published another part of the interview, where Simon revealed that a verse in “You’re So Vain” is about Warren Beatty.
Simon’s memoir, Boys In The Trees, comes out on Tuesday.