What Happened to Kelly McGillis?

Kelly McGillis is an American actress. McGillis has been through some traumatic events in her life.

Two men forced their way into her apartment and raped her at knifepoint in her New York flat in 1982.

“I’ll never forget the way they smelled,” she told People magazine in 1988. “Like alcohol and old sweat. While one watched, the taller one got on top of me and held the knife at my right eye. Then the other one got on top of me.”

“They kept switching and telling me they were going to beat me until I was dead.”

Luckily, someone had heard her screams and called the police who banged on the door and caused the attackers to run away. McGillis later identified them, with the primary attacker being imprisoned for three years.

The shadow of her rape, however, hung over everything she did. She admitted that she couldn’t ride the New York City underground without gagging and that she would have committed suicide if her fellow Juilliard students and teachers hadn’t been understanding.

In 2016, she was assaulted by a woman who broke into her North Carolina home.

The woman was eventually found guilty of the misdemeanour of breaking and entering. Soon after the attack,  McGillis said she had acquired a concealed gun carry permit