My father 強姦d me when I was 11, says beauty guru Leslie Kenton

By Keri Sutherland
Updated: 22:00 BST, 30 January 2010

Beauty guru Leslie Kenton has 明らかにする／漏らすd for the first time that she was 強姦d 老年の 11 by her own father, the 伝説の jazz musician Stan Kenton.

The 68-year-old ? who 開拓するd the Hollywood craze for raw food ? 述べるd how the incestuous 関係 lasted until she was 13. Her experience 結局 led to a 自殺 試みる／企てる in her 早期に teens.

However, in an interview with The Mail on Sunday’s You magazine, the writer and former health 放送者 says her 最新の 調書をとる／予約する, Love 事件／事情／状勢, is a loving 尊敬の印 to the father who 乱用d her.

Family secret: Leslie Kenton in 1952 with her mother Violet and father Stan at their home in the Hollywood Hills

‘It ripped me to shreds,’ she said of the 調書をとる／予約する. Yet it begins with the startling dedication to her father: ‘For Stanley, with all my love.’

Stan Kenton played with jazz 広大な／多数の／重要なs Stan Getz and Art Pepper. Leslie lived with her maternal grandmother for three years while Stan and her mother Violet 小旅行するd America.

She then joined her parents on the road until Violet took her daughter to live in California.

Leslie was furious. She said: ‘Stanley and I would get excited about the same things.

'He was very childlike, and that was the best part of my father. It created a 深い 社債.

‘I think I was the only person on Earth he felt he could be himself with. He would （犯罪の）一味 me in the middle of the night in a 明言する／公表する and I would do everything I could to try to 安心させる him.’

In 1952 she 再結合させるd him on 小旅行する. They 株d the same hotel room ? and the same bed. 老年の ten, Leslie tried to 抑制（する） her 6 ft 4in father’s 激しい-drinking habits.?

However, one night he 強姦d her. It 示すd the beginning of an incestuous 関係 that lasted for three years.

Leslie said: ‘I believe that he tried his best to resist touching me. Then, 溺死するing in a sea of alcohol, he would come to my bed, only to 否定する the next morning that he’d been there.

Leslie today. にもかかわらず her traumatic childhood, she says: 'I ended up with so much beauty and so much life'

‘He was born into 犯罪. As a child he was taught by his mother, “There is something wrong with you, Stanley.”’

She believes her father had dissociative 身元 disorder and selective amnesia, which Leslie believed 許すd him to 封鎖する out the incest.

Leslie 述べるs how she 苦しむd physical and emotional 外傷／ショック, 結局 turning to self-害（を与える）.

‘My mother did not want to notice because she only 手配中の，お尋ね者 to see what she considered beautiful,’ she said. ‘She loved Stanley all her life.’

Years later, when Leslie told Violet about the 関係 ‘she was horrified but not surprised’.

Violet 解任するd how Stan had （人命などを）奪う，主張するd their daughter had become a pathological liar.

Leslie said: ‘He was terrified [unconsciously] of someone finding out. One night he shook me to the point where it didn’t 事柄 to me if he killed me.

'Something broke in me and my 関係 with him broke. It was a turning point in my life.’

Leslie later took an overdose and was 急ぐd to hospital. When she finally 直面するd her father in 1972, Stan said: ‘All I can say is that I’m so sorry.’

Stan Kenton died in 1979.

? Love 事件／事情／状勢: The Memoir Of? A Forbidden Father-Daughter 関係 will be published? on February 18.