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Busy Philipps took to Instagram on Thursday to reveal that she was raped when she was 14 years old.

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00:00In the wake of Dr. Christine Blasey, Ford publicly accusing Supreme Court nominee

00:04Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her at a party when she was 15, and President

00:08Donald Trump subsequently casting doubt on her allegation by tweeting that if it were

00:12true, she would have spoken sooner, many high-profile victims of sexual assault have

00:16been compelled to finally share their own experiences. In an essay for Vox published

00:20on September 23rd, Alyssa Milano described the aftermath of being assaulted and

00:24explained that victims often don't come forward for fear of having blame redirected

00:28away from their attacker and onto them.

00:30Padma Lakshmi echoed that same sentiment in her essay for the New York Times, in which

00:34she opened up about the trauma she suffered after being raped by her boyfriend when she was 16.

00:39On Thursday, as Dr. Blasey Ford bravely took the stand in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee

00:44to provide testimony against Kavanaugh, Busy Phillips took to Instagram to share her story, too.

00:58The actress's memoir, This Will Only Hurdle Little, is due in stores October 16th. She added,

01:13Meanwhile, in her opening statement to the committee, Ford said,

01:16Ford alleges that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her at a party in 1982 when he pinned her down on a bed,

01:27tried to remove her clothes, and muffled her cries of protest with his hand.

01:31During her emotional testimony, Dr. Ford disclosed that she believed Kavanaugh was going to rape her

01:36and described how the sound of Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge's uproarious laughter

01:41is indelible in her hippocampus.

01:43Dr. Ford told the top committee Democrat, California Senator Dianne Feinstein,

01:47that she'd agonized daily over coming forward about the alleged decades-old attack

01:51and feared the personal consequences would be akin to jumping in front of a train.

01:55Since Dr. Ford went public with her allegations against Kavanaugh, two other women,

01:59Deborah Ramirez and Julie Swetnick, have also come out to share stories of the politicians' alleged misbehavior.

02:05Kavanaugh has staunchly denied all of the allegations that have been leveled against him

02:09and will appear in front of the Judiciary Committee Thursday afternoon.

02:12To read more on this story, head to THR.com.

02:15For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.