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New film "Precious" gets big push from Oprah
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-09-15 10:03
The Grammy award winner said the story reminded her of her own childhood in a Yonkers, New York, housing project. "All I could think about was growing up in my neighborhood and knowing that girl Precious," she said. "Some of those situations that happened to Precious, happened to me." The 37-year-old singer/producer said she lived her life "in black and white" until she was in my late 20s. "I had never dealt with the fact that I was molested as a child," she said. "When I finally got to the point where I said I cannot live like this anymore it seemed like everything turned to color." Oprah said she planned to promote the film on her talk show because she felt so strongly about what the story was saying. "The message from this film is that none of us ... can allow the Preciouses of the world to be invisible."
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