Early in her life, The Pretenders legendary rocker Chrissie Hynde fell in with a group of outlaw bikers. She should have feared for her life at the time, she says, but she didn't, and during her time with the bikers, she was beaten, robbed and raped, she tells Tracy Smith in an interview for CBS SUNDAY MORNING WITH CHARLES OSGOOD to be broadcast Sept. 6 (9:00 AM, ET) on the CBS Television Network.
Hynde, 63, reveals the attack in her new memoir, and she's already taking heat for putting some of the blame on herself. "If you hung out with those guys, that's what happened. That's the way it was," Hynde tells Smith. "I mean, if you go and hang out with outlaws and criminals, that's just part of it." Hynde says she didn't fear for her life at the time. "I should've. And other people should've. But we weren't thinking that way. You know, we were just trying to score pot and, you know, see bands. That's all we wanted to do. And if motorcycles were part of it, then even better." That quest, however, led to dangerous circumstances. "With a lot of these guys, once you get involved in them, you don't really get out," Hynde says. "Especially if you're a woman, you become sort of property."Photo courtesy of CBS
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