Kat Alano: I was raped
Months after her intriguing posts about rape on social media, radio-TV personality Kat Alano revealed that she was sexually assaulted nine years ago.
Although she didn’t name names or a specific incident, Kat’s posts, which came after Deniece Cornejo accused Vhong Navarro of raping her in January, were intriguing.
Kat shared in the April 24 episode of “Good Times with Mo The Podcast,” that the Vhong-Deniece-Cedric controversy prompted her to speak out on her own experience. Kat admitted she was raped by a “public figure,” but she doesn’t want to name him yet.
Feeling different and confused
“It’s so hard to say it. The past three months have been hard dealing with that, constantly telling myself that ‘I was raped.’ I was raped. Coming to terms with that myself, this happened to me. And I have to deal with that now,” Kat told Mo.
Kat revealed that she met her alleged rapist while she was working in television. The alleged rape happened in her own apartment, after the guy ignored her strong objections and insisted on bringing her home from the club they came from.
“He said to me, ‘Let me drive you home.’ I was like, ‘No, it’s okay. I’ll go with my friends.' And he was like, ‘No, let me drive you home. (I said) ‘Really, I can drive and it’s really close by.’ He’s insisting to drive me home.”
Kat said she felt different and confused while inside the car. When they arrived at her home, Kat said she didn’t want the guy to enter her apartment. However, she couldn’t control her body. Mo surmised during the podcast that Kat could have been drugged.
‘I was in a fog’
"At that time it (if being drugged) didn’t even cross my mind. I felt confused, I felt baffled. I don’t know what’s going on with me. I don’t know what’s happening to my body. It’s like I was in a fog,” she said.
Detailing what happened, Kat added, “I blacked out again. I was lying on my bed and he was lying on top of me. I blacked out again. I woke up again because he was kissing me. I was dreaming and I thought he was the guy I was dating that time. And I opened my eyes, and I saw that it’s him. I freaked out and I started crying. I was like ‘No!’”
Kat admitted she found it hard to reveal the incident at first. She felt “being raped over and over again” under public scrutiny,
Why only now?
“I just don’t want to be silent anymore. I don’t want to keep it to myself anymore. Something bad happened to me and nobody is listening. And when I tell people, they call me a liar. How are you supposed to say anything?”
Why did she keep silent for nine long years?
“I wanted this to go away. I wanted this to sweep under the rug. I wanted this to go away. I wanted to bury it, I wanted it to die. I wanted to forget. I never want to think about it again. Something triggered in me and I could not stop it,” Kat replied.
She denies knowing Cedric Lee, Deniece and their camp. Kat also denies that she just wants to ride on the popularity of the case involving Vhong.
First step
She explained why she didn’t want to name her rapist.
“I’m not ready to do that because what it will become is public figure versus public figure. The act that I was raped and rape itself will be totally lost in a bunch of other stuff.”
She took the first step of “freeing” herself by speaking about her own experience. Kat admits she isn’t ready to take her case to court for now because she “can’t afford the legal aspect.”
“And when I am ready, I will face that part. I know I have to. I will because what am I supposed to do, just let my rapist go free? Is that what we're supposed to do with everybody?"
