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"\"&lt;strong&gt;Bad Boys 2&lt;/strong&gt;\" actress &lt;a href=\"http://www.tmz.com/person/gabrielle-union/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gabrielle Union&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; claims she can understand why &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=\"http://www.tmz.com/person/rihanna/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Rihanna&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;portrayed the killing of a rapist in her new music video ... because Gabrielle says she tried to shoot the man who raped her when she was 19-years-old. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2011/06/07/0607-gabrielle-union-bn-tmz-01.jpg\" alt=\"Gabrielle Union\" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Union opened up about her past after watching the video for \"&lt;strong&gt;Man Down&lt;/strong&gt;\" -- saying, \"Saw 'Man Down' by @rihanna. Every victim/survivor of rape is unique, including how they THINK they'd like justice 2 be handed out.\"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She continued, \"During my rape I tried 2 shoot my rapist, bt I missed. Over the yrs I realized tht killin my rapist would've added insult 2 injury.\"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;\"The DESIRE 2 kill someone whose abused/raped u is understandable, bt unless its self defense n the moment 2 save ur life, just ADDS 2 ur troubles #mandown.\"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Union -- who has talked about the experience in the past -- says her attacker was a \"stranger who robbed the store I worked at. He put his gun dwn durin the rape &amp;amp; asked me 2 [hand] it 2 him.\"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=\"http://www.toofab.com/videos/?autoplay=true&amp;amp;mediaKey=d0b58309-d159-4832-8e09-3a369d69ed89\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;&lt;img src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2011/06/02/0602-rihanna-video-launch2.jpg\" alt=\"Gabrielle Union\" style=\"float: right;\" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Gabrielle &lt;a href=\"http://www.oprah.com/oprahradio/surviving-sexual-assault-audio\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;provided a link&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to Oprah's radio show -- where she talks about the incident in depth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- relatedlinks --&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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