Ashley Judd on being the first Weinstein accuser: 'It was just the beginning'

Sarah Riley | Courier Journal

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Ashley Judd made headlines as the first woman to go on record about being harassed by disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein.

After months being of the face of the #MeToo movement, she has settled into her role as a hero to women who have experienced workplace sexual abuse.

Now the Kentucky-raised actress has once again talked to the New York Times — the organization that blew the roof off Hollywood's best-kept secret — about how the article was "just the beginning."

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"On one flight, I had my Time’s Up T-shirt on, and when I got off the airplane people had lined up to thank me," she told reporter Jodi Kantor.

In the months since, she's been fighting for wages she says she lost because of Weinstein's treatment, she's active with Time's Up and she has become a shoulder to lean on.

And she wants you to feel empowered, too.

"Now I want joyfully to shout from the rooftops, everyone come forward, everyone come forward," she told the New York Times.