The 36-year-old actor opened up about the experience to media mogul Oprah Winfrey and said her comic skits often reflected her life story where she would say if a woman is asleep, one cannot assume to have the consent to engage in a sexual act with her.
“When we hear about rape when we’re children, and we’re being warned about it, it’s about a guy popping out from a bush… and some villain. They don’t say it’s probably gonna be a guy you know really well. It could be your husband. It could be your friend. And so you think, when that happens you, you say, ‘OK, this isn’t someone I want to see rotting in a jail cell, but what he did to me was wrong, and I didn’t consent.’
“And for me, I lost my virginity while I was asleep. And that’s not OK. So, in my stand-up, I would say, ‘If she’s asleep, that’s a no.’ Just hoping that a couple guys would see that and it would be met in that moment, like, ‘This is a no. I heard that somewhere’,” Schumer said, according to Jezebel.
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The alleged assault was perpetrated by a boyfriend and because of that, she didn’t know how to navigate her conflicted feelings.
“The first thing he said was, ‘I thought you knew,’” she recalled. “I didn’t say anything yet … He was my boyfriend. I loved him. I had to comfort him.
“I also felt really angry. It was just a feeling I had. I felt really angry at him, and it’s a rage that has stayed with me,” she continued. “I don’t think you lose that. As women, we’re really trained not to get angry because that makes people dismiss you right away … but I felt I wanted to comfort him because he felt so bad and he was so worried, just tried to push my anger down.”
Schumer and her boyfriend stayed together and eventually had consensual sex, she said.
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