Amy Schumer says her virginity was taken against her will when she was 17.The comedian told Marie Claire that when re-reading her diary entries she remembered the details about her first time, when her ex-boyfriend forced himself on her.
And this was not the last time that a man had sex with Amy when she plainly did not want to – but the Trainwreck star insists that this is all in the past and that she doesn’t see herself as a victim of rape.
In the August edition of the magazine, she explains: ‘My first sexual experience was not a good one. I didn’t think about it until I started reading my journal again.
‘When it happened, I wrote about it almost like a throwaway. It was like, “And then I looked down and realized he was inside me. He was saying, ‘I’m so sorry’ and ‘I can’t believe I did this.’”‘
‘This was 17 years ago. There are just so many factors,’ she adds, admitting that she doesn’t want to punish the man in question.
She goes on: ‘I had another time with a boyfriend where I was saying “No, stop”, and it was just completely ignored.’
Despite experiencing what is objectively defined as rape, Amy seems to have made her peace with what happened.
But the 34-year-old does feel very strongly about the ‘fury’ that’s directed at rape survivors who speak out. ‘You know, with the rape survivor, it’s not just shaming, it’s fury. It makes people so mad if you’re not a perfect victim,’ she says.
Long Island native Amy is now in an apparently harmonious relationship with 29-year-old furniture maker Ben Hanisch, who she sees as her ‘first’ proper partner.
‘I feel like Ben is the first guy who’s really been my boyfriend,’ she adds. ‘There are guys who, if they heard me say that, would want to punch me in the face, but yeah, it’s the truth.’
