Kangana Ranaut speaks up about being inappropriately touched in childhood
Mumbai Apr 25 PTI Shining a spotlight on child abuse and sexual assault actor Kangana Ranaut recounted her experience when she was inappropriately touched in her childhood years by a youth in her hometown in Himachal PradeshThe actor talked about the incident on the reality show Lock Upp on which she serves as a host after contestant and comic Munawar Faruqui revealed that he was sexually assaulted by his relatives when he was around six and that it went on till he turned 11Munawar chose to share his secret on the ALTBalaji and MX Player series to save his fellow contestant fashion designer Saisha Shinde in a task assigned to the players on the episode which premiered SundayAfter a point of time I think they realised that they had gone into the extreme so they thought they should stop for a while Once I felt my dad had found out I cant remember properly but I felt that he had found out I never felt that sharing about this with family will do any good the comedian saidKangana praised Munawar for sharing his story publicly for the first time adding that she too was subjected to inappropriate touch in childhoodMunawar so many kids every year go through this kind of harassment but we dont ever discuss this on a public platform Everyone is touched inappropriately in childhood Everyone goes through this kind of experience I have tooIn our town when I was very young a boy who was a few years older to me he used to inappropriately touch me But I didnt know back then what it meant Every child has to go through this no matter however protective their family is the actor saidSince sensitising children about good touch and bad touch is still not easy it is only fitting that the platform of Lock Upp is being used to bring about awareness about abuse she addedThis is a big crisis for children they cant even be educated about this as they are very young You cant even sexualise them or tell them the difference between a good touch and a bad touch And kids suffer so much due to thisThey become psychologically traumatised and scarred for life They face so many issues later on in youth it is endless So we are using this platform to bring about awareness about child abuse and sexual abuse Continuing Kangana said back in her hometown a youth would call children over and undress themWe were all very young around five-six years old he used to call us over and undress us At that time we didnt understand what was happening with us There is a huge stigma behind this especially for men It is very brave of you Munawar that you shared this with us she addedAfter Kangana and Munawar shared their respective accounts Saisha said she was reminded of her own experienceThis was my first secret After listening to you both sharing all these and Munawar talking about how people reacted when he shared it with them I was reminded The few people with whom I shared my experience they said to me this is why you are so much into sex this is why you are gay After hearing all this I was never able to gather the courage to talk about it she saidFormerly known as Swapnil Shinde Saisha came out as a transwoman last year through a social media post She shot to headlines recently for designing the gown worn by Miss Universe 2021 Harnaaz Sandhu at the crowning ceremony in JanuaryThe stigma will end when well talk about it Today Im proud to say that he Faruqui is my friend the designer said PTI RDS SHD RDS RDS
Mumbai Apr 25 PTI Shining a spotlight on child abuse and sexual assault actor Kangana Ranaut recounted her experience when she was inappropriately touched in her childhood years by a youth in her hometown in Himachal PradeshThe actor talked about the incident on the reality show Lock Upp on which she serves as a host after contestant and comic Munawar Faruqui revealed that he was sexually assaulted by his relatives when he was around six and that it went on till he turned 11Munawar chose to share his secret on the ALTBalaji and MX Player series to save his fellow contestant fashion designer Saisha Shinde in a task assigned to the players on the episode which premiered SundayAfter a point of time I think they realised that they had gone into the extreme so they thought they should stop for a while Once I felt my dad had found out I cant remember properly but I felt that he had found out I never felt that sharing about this with family will do any good the comedian saidKangana praised Munawar for sharing his story publicly for the first time adding that she too was subjected to inappropriate touch in childhoodMunawar so many kids every year go through this kind of harassment but we dont ever discuss this on a public platform Everyone is touched inappropriately in childhood Everyone goes through this kind of experience I have tooIn our town when I was very young a boy who was a few years older to me he used to inappropriately touch me But I didnt know back then what it meant Every child has to go through this no matter however protective their family is the actor saidSince sensitising children about good touch and bad touch is still not easy it is only fitting that the platform of Lock Upp is being used to bring about awareness about abuse she addedThis is a big crisis for children they cant even be educated about this as they are very young You cant even sexualise them or tell them the difference between a good touch and a bad touch And kids suffer so much due to thisThey become psychologically traumatised and scarred for life They face so many issues later on in youth it is endless So we are using this platform to bring about awareness about child abuse and sexual abuse Continuing Kangana said back in her hometown a youth would call children over and undress themWe were all very young around five-six years old he used to call us over and undress us At that time we didnt understand what was happening with us There is a huge stigma behind this especially for men It is very brave of you Munawar that you shared this with us she addedAfter Kangana and Munawar shared their respective accounts Saisha said she was reminded of her own experienceThis was my first secret After listening to you both sharing all these and Munawar talking about how people reacted when he shared it with them I was reminded The few people with whom I shared my experience they said to me this is why you are so much into sex this is why you are gay After hearing all this I was never able to gather the courage to talk about it she saidFormerly known as Swapnil Shinde Saisha came out as a transwoman last year through a social media post She shot to headlines recently for designing the gown worn by Miss Universe 2021 Harnaaz Sandhu at the crowning ceremony in JanuaryThe stigma will end when well talk about it Today Im proud to say that he Faruqui is my friend the designer said PTI RDS SHD RDS RDS
