Overview
- During Wednesday’s live broadcast, Bertinelli used the F-word while describing how abuse changes a life, and the expletive was bleeped.
- She tied her comments to the Epstein files debate, accusing “idiots in Congress” of protecting perpetrators and urging viewers to vote out officials who have not pursued accountability.
- Bertinelli said a decade of trauma work and seeing other survivors speak out motivated her to tell her story on national television.
- Promoting her new memoir, Getting Naked, she reiterated that she was assaulted at age 11 and said it took her 50 years to speak publicly about it.
- Co-host Sunny Hostin told her the testimony will matter, noting rape—especially child rape—is heavily under-reported.