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Molly Ringwald , star of hit 1980s classic The Breakfast Club, opened up about her ‘harrowing’ Hollywood experience as a young woman. The 56-year-old actor – who started in the industry in her early teens and was only 17 when Breakfast Club was released – got candid about encountering ‘predators’ during her career in a new interview. The screenstar also featured in 1984 film Sixteen Candles, 1986 movie Pretty in Pink and in recent years has appeared in the Kissing Booth trilogy and Riverdale as Mary Andrews.

But when fame first came knocking at Molly’s door in the 80s, she said she ‘never really felt like [she was] part of a community’ because she was ‘so young’ and a ‘shy, introverted person’. ‘I wasn’t into going out to clubs. I feel like I’m more social now than I was then.



I was just too young,’ she said on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast ‘You’re lucky you didn’t get taken advantage of or got into some sort of horrible situation,’ Marc, 60, responded to Molly who quickly corrected his assumption. ‘Oh, I was taken advantage of,’ she replied, laughing: ‘You can’t be a young actress in Hollywood and not have predators around. ‘I wasn’t raped by Harvey Weinstein so I’m grateful for that,’ she added.

Molly starred in Weinstein film Strike It Rich when she was 20 and opened up about her experience in Hollywood in the New Yorker in 2017 . On the podcast, Molly explained that she was ‘definitely in questionable situation.

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