After being threatened with sexual violence on Twitter, the 46-year-old penned a powerful essay in which she slammed the culture of gender based hatred.
‘Tweets rolled in, calling me a c***, a w**** or a b****, or telling me to suck a two inch d***.
'Some even threatened rape,’ she revealed.
‘I read in vivid language the various ways, humiliating and violent, in which my genitals, vaginal and anal [sic], should be violated, shamed, exploited and dominated. Either the writer was going to do these things to me, or they were what I deserved.’
Ashley added that the comments hit home even harder for her as she is a survivor of rape and incest.
The star details how in 1984, when she was 15, she was raped twice by one man, while another watched, before being molested by another adult.
‘The nature of recovering from trauma is that it can be ongoing, with deeper levels of healing and freedom coming with indefatigable persistence to keep chipping away at it’ the star added.