It’s been 50 years since Olivia Hussey rose to prominence as Juliet in 1968’s Romeo and Juliet, and now the iconic actress is sharing her recollections, both joyous and tragic, in a new book called The Girl on the Balcony.

Actor Christopher Jones, she claims, assaulted and raped her at the home where Sharon Tate was killed.

Hussey, now 67, and Jones began dating in the late 1960s, but she alleges that he began assaulting her shortly after she portrayed Juliet on the big screen in the late 1960s.

‘We were talking and his eyes glazed over and he punched me in the stomach,’ she said.

‘I was young, and I loved him. I was very loyal.’

Hussey said that she met Tate not long after, in 1969, while she was pregnant and rented the house of Hussey’s agent Rudi Altobelli. Hussey intended to move into Altobelli’s guest home and assist Tate with her newborn. But soon after, she received word that Tate and four other people had been slain while Altobelli was abroad.

“I’ll never forget Rudi telling me,” Hussey remarked. “He said, ‘They’re all dead.’ It was terrible.” Hussey, though, moved into the house alone after splitting up with Jones barely five weeks later.

“People would say, ‘How could you live there?’” she says. “I’d say, ‘In England, most of the houses have horrible memories. It’s not that big of a deal.’”

She told People, “All I felt was Sharon’s vibration. And it was lovely. She’d left an orange scarf and I kept it on my prayer table for years.”

Hussey, on the other hand, has yet to have his own horror.

Hussey detailed the moment Jones arrived at the house and savagely raped her inside her bedroom in her new book.

“I didn’t know if he was going to kill me,” Hussey said. “My face was like a balloon. I had a bloody nose, my lip was split open and I had a black eye. It was terrifying.”

Hussey said she found out she was pregnant a few weeks later but chose to abort the pregnancy.

‘I decided I could not have the baby. It broke my heart… although I have never regretted it,’ she explained.

Jones died in 2014, after Hussey had only notified a few close friends and family members about the rape.

Nonetheless, Hussey now claims that the silver lining was falling in love with Dean Paul Martin, the son of singer Dean Martin.

Hussey adds, “I fell for him because of the way he treated me and took care of me.” Alex, the couple’s 45-year-old son, was born in 1971. They broke up in 1979, but stayed close until his death in an aircraft crash in 1987.