I was raped at 16 and kept silent: Padma Lakshmi

I was raped at 16 and kept silent: Padma Lakshmi

Entertainment News : American TV personality, author, actor, and model Padma Lakshmi recently opened up about being raped as a teenager.

In reference to the sexual assault accusations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh that allegedly went unreported for decades, Lakshmi wrote an Op-Ed for The New York Times.

In the piece, the ‘Top Chef’ host mentioned that she was 7 years old when she was assaulted for the first time and 16 years old when she was raped.

Narrating the ordeal, Lakshmi said that she dated a 23-year-old “charming and handsome” college student when she was 16, who would “flirt” with her at her part-time retail job at a mall in Los Angeles. But just a few months into the relationship, Lakshmi said that he sexually assaulted her while she was asleep.

“When we went out, he would park the car and come in and sit on our couch and talk to my mother,” she recalled in the…Read more

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