Hey Men, You Have no Right To Misbehave With Me: Ileana D’Cruz

#TalkingStalking: Ileana has spoken up about eve-teasing. She’s helped send one to jail too. When will you?

Ileana D’Cruz found herself living a nightmare last week.

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Ileana D’Cruz found herself living a nightmare last week, when she was on her way to the Lakme Fashion Week.

You are right Ileana D’ Cruz, it is a “shitty world”. And things are way worse for women. In an interview with Mumbai Mirror, Ileana recounted how six men tried to harass her while she waited for the signal to turn green.

So why didn’t she just click some photographs of her harassers and shame them on social media? The 29-year-old told the daily that she thought about that but decided against it because it would encourage the “six lunatics” to misbehave further.

She said she was accompanied by her chauffeur at the time, and that it was the two of them against the six men.

This is not the actor’s first brush with eve-teasers. In the interview, she revealed that when she was 16 years old, she helped put an eve-teaser behind bars for a while.

But this time I was alone, without an entourage, and that must have emboldened them.

Ileana D’ Cruz

We hope no one has to go through this. It’s time to put an end to this menace.

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