Robin Givens, probably the next actress to receive a star on the walk of fame is now an author.  In the pages of her new autobiography “Grace Will Lead Me Home,” Robin Givens details how she was raped by her then-husband, boxer Mike Tyson, during a 1988 trip to Russia. The incident allegedly took place just 48 hours before the infamous interview with Barbara Walters, when Givens revealed that Tyson was physically abusive and bi-polar.

In an excerpt provided by the New York Daily News, the actress writes,

[I] was awoken by a drunken Tyson who “climbed on top of me . . . and grabbed me by my throat.” Givens said she attempted to reach for a phone and yelled for him to stop, but he “pinned my hands above my head . . . He pulled my pajama pants down . . . I begged him to stop as he undid his pants and began to shove himself in me.”

According to Givens, Tyson then began a tirade where he began tearing up the hotel room and ended up hanging by one arm from a railing 18 stories above the lobby.

Huh?  You waited almost 20 years to tell that story and when you do you write it in a book.  Ok I get it, sexual assault is a very traumatic experience and its proven that years may pass before a victim have the willpower to tell their story but don’t you have to question motive here. The only reason she’s telling it now is because she feels she might be able to financial profit from her own misfortune.  That, to me, does a disservice to all the women who are victims of spousal rape.  

Do I believe her? Of course I do.  Tyson is an animal he bites ears of for crying out loud.  I’m more surprised that he only raped her once.  I wonder if spousal rape a crime in Russia.