Molly Ringwald is opening up about a "harrowing" time in her life. During an appearance on the latest episode of the WTF With Marc Maron podcast, the Pretty in Pink alum told host Marc Maron that she was "taken advantage of" as a young actress in the '80s. "I never really felt like I was part of a community when I was in Hollywood just because I was so young, really," Ringwald, 56, recalled during Monday's episode.
"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.
" "Well, you're lucky you didn't get taken advantage of or got into some sort of horrible situation," Maron, 60, responded. "Oh, I was taken advantage of," Ringwald said. "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. But I also did write an essay for The New Yorker that was all like, 'It's not all Harvey Weinstein. He's not the only one.
'" Noting that she was "definitely in questionable situations," Ringwald said she relied on her "incredible survival instinct and a pretty big superego" to "figure out a way to protect myself." "But, yeah, it can be harrowing," the Riverdale alum continued. "And I have a 20-year-old daughter (Mathilda Ereni Gianopoulos) now who is going into the same profession, even though I did everything I could to convince her to do something else.
And it's hard." Ringwald became an onscreen icon for her roles in the 1984 John Hughes flick, Sixteen Cand.
