Sara Stokes’ story reads like the cover of a tabloid magazine.

The Port Huron native’s highest highs came with a rush of fame.

She revealed for the first time publicly on Saturday night’s season finale that she was molested by her mother's boyfriend when she was 5, and then by her own father at age 12.

The abuse left deep wounds that continue to pain her to this day."I don't want to be the victim no more," she told the Free Press in an interview last week. And if this is the way I have to do it, then I'll do it like this."Obviously, God gave me the platform, and I feel it in my spirit and in my heart to say something.

"The ladies send their congratulations." last September.

At the time, Gilbert and the other hosts were facing their fears in special segments.

theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher, “cultured despisers of religion.” Why?

Well, partly because of an endless tussle in my own heart and head that bumps between Christian spirituality and the “cultured despisers of religion.” And partly because, as Billy Joel says, I am tempted to the position that “sinners are much more fun.” In Blue Like Jazz: Non-Religious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality, author Don Miller reflects on his non-Christian “hippie” friends: “They loved me like a good novel, like an art film, and this is how I felt when I was with them, like a person John Irving would write.” Who wouldn’t want to be loved the way John Irving writes his spectacularly flawed characters? Singer-songwriter Sara Groves’ Floodplain is a journey through the landscape of a heart “built on a floodplain.” Along the way, Groves joins subtle religious and secular imagery with such a deft hand that the religious and non-religious run together.

CBS’s Daytime Emmy Award-winning talk show THE TALK features a panel of well-known news and entertainment personalities discussing current events, pop culture, contemporary issues, family, celebrity and the trending topics of the day.Everyone in Hollywood is pregnant, or at least that’s how it seems.In true Hollywood fashion, celebrities — like Chrissy Teigen and John Legend who have finally conceived via IVF — are making their joyous announcements on Instagram and Twitter.Sara Groves is a mom, wife, singer/ songwriter and recording artist with a passion for justice and a heart of mercy.She has joined forces with International Justice Mission to advocate for victims of human trafficking for the past 8 years.Clair County Jail two years ago on a domestic violence conviction involving her husband, Tony Stokes — that producers of a BET Centric reality show called “From the Bottom Up” approached her about the possibility of a comeback.The show, which just finished its second season, features Stokes and several other women who achieved some degree of prominence, but whose careers and lives took a turn for the worse.