![]() Inspired to document her quest to find the women and to catalogue their traumas, she rented a motor home and spent 57 days traversing the United States, spending nearly $300,000, some of which was donated by personal friends and family and professional contacts. Shelton found that many of the women whom she interviewed had either been raped, beaten, or molested. In 2001, Shelton undertook the production of a documentary in which she travelled the United States in an effort to interview 40 of the 76 women who shared her name, whom she found while searching the Internet. ![]() The events in her childhood inspired her to make a documentary. She and her siblings were sexually molested by her father and stepmother, and were eventually removed from their care and placed in foster care. Searching for Angela SheltonĪfter her parents divorced, Shelton lived with her father, stepmother, stepbrother, and stepsister in North Carolina. On television, Shelton has appeared in Pacific Blue, Chicago Hope, and Becker. She has acted in the films Comfortably Numb (1995), The Shrink Is In (2001), The Big Time (2002 television movie), The Safe Side, a 2004 instructional video, and Beautiful Dreamer (aka Daysleeper) (2009). ![]() ![]() Shelton was a co-screenwriter (with then-husband Gavin O'Connor) and executive producer for the 1999 film Tumbleweeds, based on her experiences with her serial-marrying mother, to whom she was returned after being in foster care. ![]()
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