"It's so difficult, it's such a sensitive topic," she said. Her book - which is on pre-order, with profits going to the anti-sexual assault organization RAINN - is meant to help change the way families process and talk about sexual abuse, Yang said. RELATED: Jessica Simpson Says It's 'Overwhelming and Humbling' to Hear from Sexual Abuse Survivors Like Herself "I'm curious if it's been a repressed memory for others in my family as well," she said, adding, "It's an uncomfortable topic, so I remember leaving the courthouse and not really talking about it again." Yang said the stranger was arrested and she testified against him in court, but her family never discussed the incident again. RELATED: Andrew Yang's Wife Evelyn Says She Was Sexually Assaulted by Her Gynecologist While Pregnant "And I realized - I've been here before." "It was in that moment, on the stand, that I suddenly felt like a small, terrified, paralyzed child," Yang said. Testifying against Hadden triggered a buried memory Yang had of being assaulted as a child at school, she said on GMA. He had separately pleaded guilty to two state charges against him, though Evelyn was not one of the women he admitted to assaulting.) (Hadden was indicted on federal charges of sexual abuse last year. She was one of 18 women to accuse Robert Hadden of sexual abuse, testifying against him in front of a federal grand jury. Yang says the idea of writing her new book, A Kids Book About Sexual Abuse, came to her after she she said last year that she had been sexually assaulted by her gynecologist. "We're taught how to cross the street safely, how to say no to drugs, what to do in the event of a house fire - statistically, children are more likely to be sexually abused than to be in a house fire, yet we don't talk about it until it happens." "We need to be normalizing these conversations around sexual abuse at a much earlier age," Yang, 39, said on Good Morning America on Monday. Evelyn Yang, the wife of New York City mayoral candidate and former presidential candidate Andrew Yang, is opening up about sexual abuse in a new children's book designed to get families talking about the issue at a younger age.
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