Actress Helen Mirren was date-raped as a student, she said in an interview in GQ magazine's October 2008 issue. Excerpts from the interview were available for the press and published in articles on September 1, 2008, before the October issue of the magazine's British version hit the shelves September 4.*FOXNews.com: Helen Mirren: 'I Loved Coke,' Used to Shoplift... (Septepmber 1, 2008)
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Said there was no "excessive violence" involved, but she was 'locked in a room and made to have sex against my will'Daily Mirror: Helen Mirren: I loved cocaine (September 1, 2008)
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Said she didn't report any of the rapes because "you couldn't do that in those days"CNN: Dame Helen Mirren in date-rape revelation (September 1, 2008)
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Also said she used to take cocaine at parties
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Stopped using cocaine when Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, who escaped to Bolivia and became a drug lord in the cocaine industry, was caught and she realized her drug use was connected to Gestapo leader Barbie, nicknamed the "Butcher of Lyon"CNN: Dame Helen Mirren in date-rape revelation (September 1, 2008)
