Lakshmi Manchu Opens Up About First Experience of Abuse at 15

She noted that harassment on public transport is so common that if a woman claims she hasn’t experienced it, “she’s lying

xActor Lakshmi Manchu has opened up about a traumatic incident from her teenage years, recalling how an unexpected encounter on public transport left her shaken and confused. In an interview with Hauterrfly, she said she was just 15 and in the tenth grade when she first faced sexual harassment.

Lakshmi explained that she grew up in a highly protected environment as the daughter of actor Mohan Babu, always travelling with a driver, a bodyguard and her mother. But during one school activity, students were taken by public transport to collect their hall tickets — a change she had looked forward to.

That excitement quickly faded. Lakshmi said she was inappropriately touc