Alyssa Milano Just Revealed She Had Two Abortions Back In 1993

From Women's Health

• Alyssa Milano opened up on her podcast, Sorry Not Sorry, about the fact that she's had two abortions in the past.

• The actress and #MeToo activist says she the abortions happened in 1993.

• At the time, she was dating actor Scott Wolf.

Alyssa Milano revealed on her podcast Sorry Not Sorry this week that she had two abortions in 1993.

“I was in love for the first time in the breathless way you can only be in love when you are young. It was huge—overwhelming even," Alyssa said. "It filled every part of living. It was a joyful and exciting and powerful time in my life.”

While she didn't name names, Alyssa and actor Scott Wolf had a whirlwind romance around that time. They met while filming Double Dragon in June of 1993, and he proposed in October, People reported. “I knew it the second I met him,” she told the publication.

When Alyssa discovered she was pregnant (despite being on the pill), she shared she was “not equipped to be a mother so I chose to have an abortion. I chose. It was my choice. And it was absolutely the right choice for me.” She said that it "was not an easy choice", instead the abortion was “something that I needed—like most healthcare is.”

She stayed on the pill but got pregnant a second time not long after and Alyssa says, “once again I made the right decision to end the pregnancy.”

She pointed to that freedom of choice, and her ability to choose to undergo both abortions, as key to building the life and the family she has now. “I would not have my children—my beautiful, perfect, loving, kind and inquisitive children—who have a mother who was so very, very ready for them,” she says in the podcast. Alyssa has a son and a daughter with her second husband, David Bugliari.

Alyssa also included stories from other women about why they decided to have an abortion. Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, joins as a guest to discuss what’s at risk with the restrictive bills and clear up misconceptions. Alyssa encouraged listeners to donate to the organization's GoFundMe.

She added: “I would never had been free to be myself—and that’s what this fight is all about: freedom.”

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