A mother’s death and a daughter’s truth: Why a rape survivor decided it was time to tell the whole story
Courtney Underwood has long been a tireless advocate for sexual assault victims. Now the Dallas woman opens up about surviving yet another unjustly stigmatized trauma.
Courtney Underwood and her service dog, Brooks, with a photograph of her late mother, Nancy Elizabeth Underwood. Courtney said that when her mother died by suicide, “All the compartmentalized boxes that I had filed away my PTSD and my trauma into just fell apart.”(Lynda M. González / Staff Photographer)
10:28 AM on May 11, 2021 CDT