Alyssa Milano reveals she was sexually assaulted as a teen

Vox

In response to President Trump tweeting that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford should've come forward with her alleged assault 36 years ago, Milano wrote an essay on Vox explaining why it took her so long to come forward. "It took me years after my assault to voice the experience to my closest friends," Milano wrote. "It took me three decades to tell my parents that the assault had even happened. I never filed a police report. I never told officials. I never tried to find justice for my pain because justice was never an option. For me, speaking up meant reliving one of the worst moments of my life. It meant recognizing my attacker’s existence when I wanted nothing more than to forget that he was allowed to walk on this Earth at all. This is what every survivor goes through. Telling our stories means being vulnerable to public attacks and ridicule when our only 'crime' was to be assaulted in the first place."