Simone Biles has just opened her doors about the first time she realized that she was being assaulted

Simone Biles has just said that she had been badually badaulted by the former USA Gymnastics team doctor, Larry Nbadar, for the first time since her arrival there is a little more Meme it One year.

In the first episode of the YouTube series "If I could tell you one thing," Priyanka Chopra Jonas asks the 22-year-old Olympic gold medalist, while she knew she had been badaulted.

Simone's answer? "I called [my friend] and I asked him for the definition of the word "badual abuse," because some of my other friends, they had it worse than me. Biles continues, "She said," If he did that and that, you were badually abused. "

Despite this, Simone dismissed the problem because she did not "want" the whole world to consider her as a survivor of badual badault instead of "Simone the gymnast". Unfortunately, by denying and burying this experience, Simone became more and more depressed – to the point where, as she explained to Priyanka, she never left her room. "I slept all the time and told one of my lawyers, I said:" I sleep all the time because that's the most important thing. " close to death. "

It was not until she read the story of a friend who was offering badault to Simone to tell what had really happened to her. The first person she said? His mother. "Then we had detectives coming in and things like that, and that's when I realized," says Simone.

At this point in the episode, you can not help but want to reach out to Simone and tell her how sorry you are (because you are, because nobody, I mean nobody should have to endure such an experience). That's exactly what Priyanka does while Simone responds: "It's good, it's much better now." This is probably due in part to Simone's courageous dedication to therapy, which calls "everything". And this is not the first time the athlete speaks openly about his treatment.

After publicly sharing her story on social media in January 2018, Simone appeared on Hello America, where she said, "I am still going into therapy, and I am currently taking medication for anxiety because I have had a lot of ups and downs throughout the year and that I was trying to figure out what was wrong. "

Can I applaud Simone? Maybe (read: most definitely) a reminder?

Even after all that she has lived through and what she is still experiencing because of her experience, she has the courage to face face-to-face vulnerability and openly share her reality with mental illness.

Now, it is strong. (And #WHStrong.)