A former Miss America said her millionaire father pulled out a gun and threatened to kill himself if she revealed that he sexually assaulted her for 13 years.

Marilyn Van Derbur Atler, who was Miss America 1958, said she believed her father "would have killed both of us" had she told her story while he was alive.Her father, Francis Van Derbur, died in 1984.

On May 8, Van Derbur revealed she was victimized by her father from age 5 to age 18.

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