US actress
The birth of her son brought back memories of sexual assault in Alyssa Milano
Actress Alyssa Milano
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Actress Alyssa Milano spoke about the birth of her son in a podcast for the US magazine “People”. The birth in 2011 triggered an old trauma in the 48-year-old.
In 2011, actress Alyssa Milano gave birth to her son Milo. The birth triggered an old trauma in the 48-year-old, as she now told in a podcast for the US magazine “People”. “I remember thinking at one point during childbirth, ‘I don’t like that so many people have access to my vagina.'” Could be where this uncomfortable feeling came from and why it felt so familiar to Milano they didn’t explain themselves back then. “I had never had a child before,” recalled the actress, reporting on anxiety and depression during the puerperium.
Eventually she went into therapy to get to the bottom of her problems. The feeling of being at the mercy of giving birth, that they were “being held and doing things to me that I didn’t want, felt similar to being sexually assaulted,” Milano said. “It sparked all of these memories that I thought I had processed. I think anyone struggling with trauma knows those moments when you say, ‘Yeah, I’m fine. I have processed it. ‘ Compared to the moments when you think, ‘Oh, no, I haven’t. I was just trying to hide it so no one could see or feel it. “
Alyssa Milano has been a victim of sexual abuse
It was Milano that was one of the first to use the hashtag #Metoo in 2017 in the wake of the abuse scandal involving film producer Harvey Weinstein, thus triggering a worldwide movement. In 2018 she wrote in a to ex-President Donald Trump Tweet: “I was sexually assaulted twice. Once when I was a teenager. I never filed a complaint with the police and it took me 30 years to tell my parents.” At the time, Milano supported the US professor Christine Blasey Ford, who claimed that Judge Brett Kavanaugh, who is now on the Supreme Court, had sexually abused her in the early 1980s.
In this context, Milano reported at an appearancewhat happened to her when she was 19 years old. “I was at the concert of a very famous singer who told the audience to come closer to the stage. It was a huge crowd. People were pressed together. I couldn’t breathe, I thought I was going to die,” she said Actress. Suddenly she noticed that someone was pushing up her skirt and inserting his fingers into her vagina. “I couldn’t turn around. I looked at the stage and the security people and said, ‘Please help me’, but they couldn’t help me. They just shook your head.”
Finally, she managed to climb onto the stage and thus escape her tormentor. “I turned around and didn’t know which of them it was. I looked at the sea of people and couldn’t find him,” recalled Milano. For decades, she hadn’t told anyone about her terrible experience and was unable to process her trauma. Therapy only helped her after the birth of her son.
Source: “People”