Padma Lakshmi writes about keeping silent after being sexually assaulted at age 16

The New York Times

In a New York Times Op-Ed, the Top Chef host writes that she is coming forward with her story after President Trump questioned the accusation made by Christine Blasey Ford, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's accuser. "I didn’t report it," writes Lakshimi. "Not to my mother, not to my friends and certainly not to the police. At first I was in shock. That evening, I let my mother know when I was home, then went to sleep, hoping to forget that night."