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US television host Padma Lakshmi’s op-ed in the New York Times was not only a way for her to speak her truth, it was a way for others to realize the truth about their own actions.
The Top Chef host, 48, spoke at the Open Endoscopy Forum on Friday – just three days after she wrote a powerful piece for the Times in which she revealed she was raped by her 23-year-old boyfriend when she was 16.
Speaking at the forum held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lakshmi told the audience that she had one woman approach her to tell the host how she was personally impacted by the op-ed, reports people.com.
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“There was this woman that came up to me and said, “I read your piece and I wanna thank you and it was really moving,'” she recalls of her interaction.
The woman then went on to explain that she received “an email from someone I haven’t seen since high school, and it was the boy who assaulted me. And he sent me the link to the article and he said, “I’m sorry. I didn’t know then what I know now and I shouldn’t have ever done that to you. And I apologize.'”