Kara DioGuardi Reveals Molestation and Rape History in Memoir

Former American Idol judge and songwriter Kara DioGuardi's memoir, A Helluva High Note: Surviving Love, Life and American Idol (out April 26), reveals its author as a survivor of sexual trauma, according to E! Online. Among abuse experiences are:

- DioGuardi writes that she was molested at 11 by the son of a friend of the family in his late teens.

- Around 2000, she was raped by a "fairly known producer," after a dinner she shared with him. She says she told him to stop, but never told anyone after the fact for fear of how it would affect her burgeoning music career.

- Some time later, she was harassed by a "hugely successful artist" during a songwriting retreat. During the three-day getaway, she was exposed to pornography and strippers performing sex acts. She says she was chased around the artist's basement and eventually forced to fondle him.

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DioGuardi also discusses her highly personal reason for leaving Idol: "I wanted a child, and there was no way I could get pregnant under the stress of eighteen-hour work days and live TV," she writes, adding, "I had undergone three unsuccessful rounds of IVF during Season 9."