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Actor Lakshmi Manchu recently opened up about being touched inappropriately at the age of 15. Lakshmi shared that the incident left her feeling humiliated, and she found it difficult to process.
During a conversation with Hauterrfly, Lakshmi shared that, as the daughter of Telugu star Mohan Babu, she usually traveled to school accompanied by a driver, a bodyguard, and her mother. However, the school once used public transport to take students to collect their exam hall tickets. While she was initially excited to travel with her schoolmates, the experience quickly turned horrific when she was inappropriately touched by strangers.
She added, “Sometimes people will want to mess with you when you’re from a big family because we won’t come out and say it. A theft happens in my house, and I can’t go out and say it. Let the Rs 15,000 go, that’s how I have been raised. Be careful with your things, but if it goes out, you don’t want to put your name out there unnecessarily.”
Lakshmi Manchu also shared that, sadly, such instances are so common, that if a girl who has ever been on public transport says she hasn’t gone through it, people assume that “she is lying.” The actor then recalled that she “fell down crying” during the MeToo movement because every single thing mentioned on a flier by the Women’s Commission had happened to her.
On the work front, Lakshmi Manchu was last seen as a contestant on Karan Johar’s show, The Traitors.
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