Alyssa Milano tees off on Trump, shares own experience with sexual assault

Actress and activist Alyssa Milano had strong words for the president on Friday after he questioned the account of Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault when they were teenagers.

“Hey, @realDonaldTrump, Listen the f— up,” Alyssa Milano tweeted Friday. “I was sexually assaulted twice. Once when I was a teenager. I never filed a police report and it took me 30 years to tell me parents. If any survivor of sexual assault would like to add to this please do so in the replies. #MeToo.”

Milano, 45, was one of first supporters of the #MeToo movement, becoming an unofficial spokeswoman for it worldwide.

President Trump challenged Ford’s story in a series of tweets Friday.

“I have no doubt that, if the attack on Dr. Ford was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed with local Law Enforcement Authorities by either her or her loving parents,” he wrote. “I ask that she bring those filings forward so that we can learn date, time, and place!”

Ford claimed she was assaulted by Kavanaugh at the age of 15. She told The Washington Post that she kept quiet about the alleged incident for years because she didn’t want her parents to find out she was drinking underage.

Kavanaugh has categorically denied the accusations ever since they became public.

Milano spoke to “GMA” last October after women and men begun using the #MeToo hashtag to share their stories of alleged abuse and assault.

“We are going to be vocal until this stops,” Milano said.

The mother of two was one of the first to share the now viral hashtag, writing on social media, “If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted write ‘me too’ as a reply to this tweet.”

Milano said she went to counseling to help herself heal but she did not know if she would ever publicly tell her story of assault.

“I have been harassed so many times I can’t count,” she said. “I’ve been assaulted but this wasn’t because I was an actress. These were instances, you know, if I was at a bar with friends or in a cab.”

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