Luke Cage actress and feminist activist Rosario Dawson has opening up about her experience with sexual molestation as a child on new a podcast. Speaking on Friday’s episode of the Morado Lens show, Dawson recounted to hosts Cindy Rodriguez and Nathalie Farfan how the sexual abuse she went through as a young girl shaped how she perceived Hollywood and how she feels now as the #MeToo movement explodes.

“I was raped and molested as a child, so for me, the world was like that since I was a child,” she said in the devastating revelation. “So when I saw it in the workplace, it wasn’t foreign to me. It was like, well, that even happens within family. It happens with people that are supposed to take care of you when you’re a child.”

Back in October, she had come forward on Twitter under the #MeToo hashtag, though she did not share any specifics of her story in her original tweet.

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Dawson has also been vocally involved with the Time’s Up movement, an initiative created by 300 powerful Hollywood women to establish a fund for women who have been experiencing sexual harassment or assault and might not be able to otherwise afford legal help.

On the podcast, she also spoke out about how glad she is that after decades of Hollywood’s stories of sexual misconduct being swept under the rug or avoided, the issue is finally being addressed. “Now we’re in a place where it’s finally like, ‘No, we don’t have to keep passing this on. This is archaic and terrible and destructive. Let’s look at it,” she said. “It’s beautiful. I’m so ready for this moment.”

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