Padma Lakshmi didn’t leave her home for days after writing an op-ed revealing how she was raped at the age of 16.In the editorial for The New York Times, written in 2018 in response to the sexual assault allegations against then-Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Lakshmi revealed that she was a virgin when she was raped by her then 23-year-old boyfriend.The Top Chef host also shared she was molested by her stepfather’s relative when she was seven.And in a cover interview for Artful Living, the 49-year-old admitted “it was scary” initially to have people approach with their own stories of sexual assault after the article was published.“I didn’t go out for three days after I wrote the article,” she told the publication..
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