‘Real Housewives of Dallas’ Star LeeAnne Locken Opens Up About Surviving Abuse
Locken, 48, said she was domestically abused by a fiancé after experiencing trauma as a child.
This isn’t LeeAnne Locken’s first rodeo.
The tough-talking, charity-loving “Real Housewives of Dallas” star was well prepared for the drama of reality TV after growing up on the carnival circuit. As she put it on “Dirty, Sexy, Funny” with Jenny McCarthy on Monday, “A lot of people have balls on our show, but I have fangs.”
She’s also a survivor. Locken, 48, said she was domestically abused by a fiancé after experiencing trauma as a child.
“My mother left me with my grandmother when I was two-and-a-half, three, and then my best friend’s father across the street was ‘friendly’ every other weekend for eight years,” she said.
Still, she said, her childhood has only made her stronger.
“I got mugged, I got beat up,” she said of her time as a carnival kid. “But I will say, I’ve learned a lot of good things, too. I’ve never done an illegal drug because I saw people jump from the top of the Ferris wheel, like, ‘I can fly!’ ”
“The Real Housewives of Dallas” airs Monday at 10pm ET on Bravo. “Dirty, Sexy, Funny” airs weekdays from 10am to 12pm on Stars.
