Actress Sonam Kapoor made a personal and shocking revelation of being sexually molested in her younger days, in a special show hosted by film critic Rajeev Masand.In the interview with Sonam Kapoor there were four other actresses which included Alia Bhatt, Anushka Sharma, Vidya Balan and Radhika Apte.They were part of a short promo that celebrates this year’s best female film performances.
(From Left to Right) Alia Bhatt, Anushka Sharma, Sonam Kapoor, Vidya Balan and Radhika Apte at the Roundtable conversation with Rajeev Masand.
Sonam, who appears on the show with the four actresses said that she was sexually assaulted when younger. “I know I have been molested when I was younger and it was very traumatising,” said Sonam.
As the conversation turns to sexual assault, Vidya Balan responded to Sonam by saying, “It’s not her fault and that is the biggest thing a victim deals with.” Anushka Sharma recounts how, as a child, she would often be asked by her mother if she had been touched inappropriately. “I thought there was something wrong with my mother because obviously I had no idea what she was asking then,” Anushka says.
“I have started questioning morality,” says Radhika Apte. Some months ago, intimate scenes from her film Parched were illegally released online. “We live in a bubble. Our reality is not reality,” says Alia Bhatt. It’s not clear if she is responding to Sonam’s statement.
Two years ago, actress Kalki Koechlin went public about being sexually abused as a child. “For me, it’s not a one day headline, it’s something that’s a reality I have lived with for a long time. Many of us have gone through it and most of the people that I know, especially close friends of mine who are women, have gone through some form of CSA (child sexual abuse). It’s just so out there, so much of it that I think it’s not something that should be ignored,” Kalki told NDTV in a 2014 interview.
And Previously actress Kangana Ranaut too had revealed that she was molested as a child.
