Ishqbaaz’s Shrenu Parikh Opens Up About Facing Sexual Abuse as a Child, Urges Fans to Share Their Stories

The current track of Ishqbaaz shows how Gauri gets molested by celebrity who visits them as a guest. This won't be the first time that an Indian daily soap has spoken about social issues. The current track of Ishqbaaz also speaks about one such issue that's a major concern in our Shrenu Parikh, who plays Gauri in the show, took to Instagram to speak about an incident in her childhood that deeply affected her. The actress opened up about being inappropriately touched when she was a kid and urged fans to raise their voices against this and share their stories.

She `wrote, "As a kid I used to spend my vacations at my grandparents’ town!

Those days we travelled in a local bus! And when the seats used to be occupied my grandfather used to request someone to share the seat for me! Similarly one uncle offered to nanu that “il make her sit on my lap”

He willingly agreed thought atleast I won’t get tired, he made me sit on his lap!

Me as a child couldn’t know what’s gonna happen to me I dozed off, only woke up to the feeling of being inappropriately being touched by that uncle!"

She added, "I could sense somethings wrong but I went all numb and thought it’s ok for him to hold me like that! I could see my naanu standing a little away from me but couldn’t tell him anything not then not later!

I wish I would have spoken about it, I wish that man would’ve gotten his share of punishment for molesting a 6 year old!"

Check out her post right here.

We do hope that Shrenu's post inspires a lot of people to speak against this horrendous act and encourage victims also to raise their voice. What are your thoughts on this? Tell us in the comments below and stay tuned with us for more.

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