In a series of tweets, badminton player Jwala Gutta has slammed an ‘actress’ who recently in an interview said that she never faced “a casting couch situation” in her career. Jwala took to the Twitter and vented out her anger. She went on to say that being in a “powerful position” it becomes the responsibility of a celebrity to speak up against various issues. Jwala further questioned the actress and wrote: “There is a lot of crime against women in general in our society..but if u haven’t experienced it..do we deny it?? Do we only speak when we experience something like that? Don’t we belong to this society where we r a minority gender?? (sic)”

Looks like the actress Jwala was referring to is Rakul Preet Singh. Recently, she in an interview, continued to stand by her views. “If I have not experienced casting couch, then how can I talk about it? And if they think I am lying, then I have nothing to say. I still stand by what I’ve said,” Rakul was quoted as saying by the Times of India.

Meanwhile, Jwala has said that she was angry after reading the interview. “I don’t want to take names, but I was really angry after reading the interview. If you are a famous personality, you should talk responsibly. I thought her comments were very insensitive, because everyone knows it (casting couch) exists. Yes, it might not have happened to her, but that does not mean that it doesn’t exist. I mean, just because you weren’t raped doesn’t mean that rape culture doesn’t exist or that rapes don’t happen,” she was quoted as saying by Hindustan Times.

“Hollywood’s Me Too campaign was massive. Do you think only those women who were harassed or sexually exploited were a part of the campaign? No. Everyone was a part of it, because until and unless you unite for a cause like this, nothing will change. These kind of things shouldn’t happen. Crimes against women should stop,” Jwala added.

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