Did George's behavior convince Teri to come forward?

In her new interview with Vanity Fair, Teri Hatcher admits that her heartbreaking affair with a “Mystery Man�? caused her to come forward about the sexual abuse she dealt with as a child. Page Six is claiming that “Mystery Man�? is an actor whose love life has baffled the press for years: George Clooney.

Leslie Bennetts, who interviewed Hatcher for VF, writes, "After an elaborate courtship, Hatcher opened her heart to a handsome guy who convinced her that she was entering a magical new relationship, only to have him disappear as soon as she'd let down her guard. He charmed, he conquered, he said, 'I'll call you,' and - poof - he was gone…The debacle with Mystery Man…made the parallels between her romantic failures and the legacy of her sexual abuse seem too obvious to ignore."

According to a “well-placed�? source for Page Six, George Clooney was the "world-class Don Juan" that Bennetts describes as leaving Teri “so emotionally bereft, so overwhelmed with grief, that it can hurt just trying to watch her cope with it." As Teri herself says, "I have so much pain. I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability…Oh, my God, can you believe what a mess I am?" The tabloids have been all over Clooney’s romance with Hatcher, even though neither of them ever admitted to it. Still, sources for Star and US Weekly have confirmed that these two were more than “just neighbors�? as Clooney claimed they were after their public dinner in December.

Still Clooney’s rep is balking at the accusation. He said to Page Six, "I doubt Teri Hatcher is your source, and unless she is, you're full of shit. I doubt very seriously that your source is credible."

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