Me Too movement has ‘probably made every woman feel like an idiot’

The Me Too movement has “probably made every woman feel for a minute like an idiot”, Broadway star Kelli O’hara has said.

The actress, who recently concluded a run of The King & I in London’s Palladium, said it has made women reflect differently on experiences they have had in their past.

She said: “It’s been a heavy year, I think, for all of us. I think all of us have probably gone back in our minds and realised things that probably weneverreallythoughtabout.

“Or thought ‘Oh god I thought that was a friend 0 Kelli O’hara: ‘We all start to just think differently’

ship...’ or whatever it was, like a professional relationship, especially professional relationships. And things like that, I think it probably has made every woman feel for a minute like an idiot. That is one of the things that makes a woman stand up, whether she’s been abused or physically or mentally or sexually or whatever it is, I think that’s what makes every woman stand up and have a straighter back all of a sudden.

“I think, going forward, that’s what’s going to change. Maybe we’re going to raise our children differently, to talk about things, to put a stop to things.

“I have a boy and a girl, there’s something important for both of them to learn.

“That’s my hope, that we all start to just think differently, to open our minds, men and women, to how we treat each other.”