Padma Lakshmi Reveals Speaking Out About Her Rape Prompted One Woman's Attacker to Apologize

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 in a piece for the Times in which she revealed she was raped by her 23-year-old boyfriend when she was 16.
Speaking at the forum held at that Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lakshmi t