MUMBAI : She spoke about her visit to an optician. She wrote, “The doctor started with examining my eye and then went down to check out other areas that were unconnected with my eye. I was scared stiff while it was happening and felt disgusted all the way home. I sat in a corner in the house and cried my eyes out when nobody was looking. But I didn’t dare tell my mother about this because I was so scared that she would say that it was my fault. That I had probably said or done something to provoke him.”

Sharing another account of her visit to a tailor, Neena said that he got “too handsy” while taking her measurements. She added that she was forced to keep going back even after this incident. “Because I felt like I had no choice. If I told my mother that I didn’t want to go to them, she would ask me why and I would have to tell her,” she explained.

The actress soon realised that all other girls in college had faced similar situations but no one would tell their parents about it because it would mean that the little freedom they had would be taken away or they would be blamed for bringing it upon ourselves.

Neena said that they were not taught the difference between ‘good touch’ and ‘bad touch’ back then.

Credits: Hindustan Times