Now, the dancer—who shares kids Weslie, 16, Maddox, 8, and Zaia, 5, with her late husband—uses her tragedies to empower her eldest daughter to stand up for herself in compromising situations.
“When I had my daughter,” she noted, “I realized that I need to build her up to, like, if anything ever happened to her, come to someone—come to me, come to someone you feel safe with and say, ‘this was wrong.’”
Ultimately, Allison prides herself on how far she’s come, determined to not let the past loom over her. And while she hopes to use her story to prevent others from finding themselves in similar situations, she expressed how disappointing that necessity is in the first place.
“I’m proud of myself now to be able to kind of own that it wasn’t me,” she said. “I was taken advantage of. But I wish it did not happen to anyone. I don’t know why people do things like that.”
