Updated On: 30 September, 2018 06:39 AM IST | Los Angeles | IANS
The "Top Chef" host, 48, spoke at the Open Endoscopy Forum on Friday - just three days after she wrote a powerful piece for the Times in which she revealed she was raped by her 23-year-old boyfriend when she was 16

Padma Lakshmi
US television host Padma Lakshmi's op-ed in the New York Times was not only a way for her to speak her truth, it was a way for others to realize the truth about their own actions.
The "Top Chef" host, 48, spoke at the Open Endoscopy Forum on Friday - just three days after she wrote a powerful piece for the Times in which she revealed she was raped by her 23-year-old boyfriend when she was 16.