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	Mo'nique, Gabriel Byrne Shine Light on Sex Abuse When Celebrities like Mo'nique Speak about Sex Abuse, People Listen By Luchina Fisher ABC News January 21, 2010 http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/monique-gabriel-byrne-shine-light-sex-abuse/story?id=9615958 [with video] When Mo'Nique gave her Golden Globe acceptance speech on Sunday, she dedicated her award to victims of abuse: "I celebrate this award with all the Preciouses, with all the Marys -- I celebrate this award with every person that's ever been touched. It's now time to tell. And it's OK." The same night, actor Gabriel Byrne told an Irish television show that he was molested at seminary school at the age of 11. "I didn't feel I suffered at the time. I just felt it was the way of the world," Byrne said on "The Meaning of Life" on Sunday. "It took many years to come to terms with it and to forgive those incidents that I felt had deeply hurt me." Any story of a child being sexually abused is shocking. With celebrities, there's the additional element of surprise -- along with the question of how were they able to overcome it?
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