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The actress recounted the ordeal in a letter written from Jessica to her younger self.

"The accusation still ricochets… They think I'm a slut???" she wrote to an adolescent Jessica. “This is only the latest injustice… They’re all ignorant. The kids think something is wrong with you because you’re developing early. The teachers don’t encourage their students to think or question anything. And parents, especially the rich parents of white, soccer-playing kids, are the worst. They constantly criticize you and tear you apart."

Jessica talked about what it was like growing up with her mixed racial background, as her father is Mexican and her mother is white.

“When you’re not racially defined, they don’t accept you in either culture,” she explained.

"Boys are awful. They are made of nothing but hormones until they’re about 20 or 21," she reportedly wrote. "You can’t take relationships too seriously until you’re older… It’s fun to have a crush, but don’t think it’s forever. You have the rest of your life to do that.”

She signed the letter, “Keep questioning and challenging. – Jessica.”

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