This woman was responsible for the downfall of Jeffrey Epstein

There are celebrities from your past that you once celebrated and later turned out to be terrible. Yes, Mr. Bill Cosby, you may feel addressed. Fortunately, there are also figures that you used to have hanging on a poster in your bedroom and for whom you would want to have a statue made forty years later. Alyssa Milano is that for me.

Every week I watched Who’s the Boss. A video recorder didn’t exist yet, so if you weren’t home, you missed it. I still remember how frustrated I could be if my riding lesson was at the same time as Who’s the Boss. Fun things had to be spread out, because now I missed my portion of Alyssa. She was pretty, cool, funny, and also sweet.

Alyssa disappeared from my focus. I didn’t watch Charmed where she played the lead role, so she remained a cherished memory from the past. Until last weekend. Until I saw that amazing and disgusting documentary Filthy Rich about Jeffrey Epstein. His victims, girls who were abused by him or his filthy friends for years, tell their story. What opened the door for them to come out? A tweet from Alyssa Milano. Alyssa was once brutally grabbed under her skirt during a concert and once assaulted during film shoots.

When she had put her three-year-old daughter to bed and thought about what suffering might await her, she sent out a tweet. It read as follows:

‘Me too…’

Suggested by a friend. ‘If all women, who have been sexually harassed or assaulted, wrote ‘me too’ as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem.’

She went to sleep, not suspecting what an avalanche of hashtags she would trigger. This message was the push that the Epstein victims needed. Knowing that you are not alone, feeling supported, heard, made it possible to embark on the difficult journey of confronting the man who had taken a piece of their soul.

After ‘Me too’ Alyssa fought for the right to abortion and autonomy over your own body.

Alyssa, amen. I loved you and I love you.