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        <title><![CDATA[Soap star Melody Thomas Scott says she was sexually abused in front of grandmother]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“Young and the Restless” star Melody Thomas Scott is speaking out about the horrific sexual abuse she suffered as a child while saying her grandmother, who was her guardian, looked on and did nothing.</p><p>In the upcoming memoir “<strong>Always Young and Restless</strong>,” Scott, 64 writes that as a 4-year-old she gained a place in the Hollywood Children’s Theater, which was founded and run by an elderly man named Cosmo Morgan, who is long dead.</p><p>In order to appear in the weekly showcase, children were required to have private weekly classes at Morgan’s apartment, she says.</p><p>The soap star writes that eventually she was forced to sit on his lap and he quickly progressed to molesting her.</p><p>Scott told Page Six that even though she was only a child, she instinctively knew it was wrong and that she looked to her grandmother, who was in the room, for help but that she did nothing.</p><p>&#8220;I remember when I first started to happen I was 4 years old and I hardly knew that this was wrong and she was sitting probably five feet away and I looked at her, my eyes, I&#8217;m sure were wild with the questions, &#8216;Do you see this? Are you going to stop this?&#8217; And she never did,&#8221; she told us.</p><p>Scott says the abuse went on for years and that she still has not forgiven her grandmother, who died years ago.</p><p>“I&#8217;m not ready for that then I don&#8217;t know if I ever will because when they are aware they become complicit and that to me is evil,” she said forcefully. “You don&#8217;t allow that to happen to a small child.”</p><p>Scott, who has played fan favorite Nikki Newman since 1979, says that she believes her grandmother was mentally ill, explaining to Page Six, “If it were today and she was diagnosed I&#8217;m quite sure it would be borderline personality along with a few other things and she also was overly ambitious and naively believed that whatever we had to do to get further of head in the business&nbsp; was perfectly fine with her, obviously.”</p><p>The memoir comes out on August 18.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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