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"Kara DioGuardi has dealt with far worse things than judge-table spats on American Idol.\r\nIn a frank new memoir, A Helluva High Note, the music industry vet and former Idol judge, 40, reveals that she suffered molestation as a a child and, as a young adult, was date-raped by a prominent music producer.\r\n\r\nDioGuardi says that, at age 11, a teenaged family friend repeatedly molested her. &amp;quot;On one particular day, he took me into the the back shed of his house and put his hands all over my [body],&amp;quot; DioGuardi writes in an excerpt at E! News.  &amp;quot;I remember freezing and not knowing what to do.&amp;quot;\r\nAnother painful secret: In 2000, as her music career rose, she went on a date with a &amp;quot;fairly known producer,&amp;quot; who sexually forced himself upon her after a cordial dinner.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;[W]ithin a few hours, he was on top of me, pumping, sweating, and speaking to me in Spanish, not a word of which I could understand,&amp;quot; DioGuardi writes.\r\nShe kept the violent date-rape secret for fear it would ruin her career, she says.\r\nDioGuardi also writes of sexual harassment at the hands of a &amp;quot;hugely successful artist&amp;quot; who was obsessed with &amp;quot;Russian porn&amp;quot; and hiring strippers for perform sex acts in front of him.\r\n\r\nOf her early season 9 departure from Idol, the star explains that she was struggling to get pregnant via IVF.\r\n&amp;quot;I wanted a child and there was no way I could get pregnant under the stress of eighteen-hour work days and live TV. . . My desire to be in control of my destiny was larger than my need to be a household name.&amp;quot; A Helluva High Note hits shelves April 26; DioGuardi will next appear on TV via Platinum Hit, a new Bravo reality series debuting May 30."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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