Busy Philipps says she turned to the pope after having an abortion at 15
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Busy Philipps — who claims in her upcoming memoir that she was bullied by James Franco on the set of “Freaks and Geeks” — also reveals in the tome that she had an abortion at age 15.
In “This Will Only Hurt a Little,” Philipps writes that after becoming pregnant with her first serious boyfriend’s child, his mother got involved, telling her, “You’re being selfish . . . You’re going to murder a baby.”
Philipps says her parents found out from her diary and her mother stood up for her.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}“My mother is who you want in your corner,” she writes, saying she “just supported and loved me.”
After the procedure, Philipps recalls, she went on a trip with her school to the Vatican, when Pope John Paul II spoke to her in Italian and made the sign of the cross.
“I never told this story publicly . . . I haven’t even told people I’m very close with,” she says. “It doesn’t work for me without getting the absolution I needed. And from the only person in the world who could give it to me: the Pope in Rome.”
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The date, she writes, “was my due date.”
This story originally appeared in the New York Post.