Real talk.
Sheryl Underwood, one of the hosts of CBS's
The Talk revealed that she suffered sexual abuse as a very young girl and offered a poignant, emotional takedown of the Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar's repulsive response to finding out their son was molesting his sisters and a family babysitter.
From her statement during the show:
"I went through that [at] 3, 4, 5 years old ... you know something is wrong and if nobody listens to you and nobody is going to stop it whether I'm asleep or not. I didn't sleep. I learned how to stay up as long as I could. I may sleep at school, because nobody is going to protect me, so I had to protect myself," she said.
She continued, "Aisha you said that it didn't help [the Duggars] to do this interview. What it really did was it helped us, the world, to see what happens to people when they're in some type of family structure when the people you're supposed to trust to protect you seem to be your co-conspirator in your violation."
Sheryl Underwood's impassioned statement is well worth a watch. As her co-hosts note, hopefully her frankness will help other victims seek help as they recover: