Lost my virginity through rape: Amy Schumer

Los Angeles April 27 (IANS) Hollywood actress Amy Schumer has revealed that she lost her virginity through a date rape by her then boyfriend.

The "Trainwreck" star lost her virginity at the age of 17. She had first mentioned it in her 2016 memoir -- "The Girl With The Lower Back Tattoo" that the sex was non-consensual explaining her unnamed boyfriend penetrated her while she was asleep reports aceshowbiz.com.

"You think when that happens you say Okay well this isn t someone I want to see rotting in a jail cell but what he did to me was wrong " Schumer told US media mogul Oprah Winfrey in an episode of "SuperSoul Conversations".

"I didn t consent and for me I lost my virginity while I was asleep - and that s not okay."

Schumer said her former-boyfriend felt bad after the incident and she was angry about it but she still tried to comfort him.

"The first thing he said was I thought you knew. I didn t say anything yet... He was my boyfriend. I loved him. I had to comfort him."

"I also felt really angry " she added.

"It was just a feeling I had. I felt really angry at him and it s a rage that has stayed with me. I don t think you lose that. As women we re really trained not to get angry because that makes people dismiss you right away... but I felt I wanted to comfort him because he felt so bad and he was so worried I just tried to push my anger down " she said.

The actress eventually had consensual sex with her former boyfriend but she wasn t able to get over the deep betrayal she felt over the alleged sexual assault.

"I feel like I lost my virginity through rape " she said.

She added: "I didn t consent we hadn t discussed it we weren t there in our relationship we weren t at that moment and we talked about things we were open with each other."

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