Breakfast Club star Molly Ringwald, 56, says she was “taken advantage of by predators” when she was a young actress in Hollywood.

Molly Ringwald, who began her career as a child actress in comedies, revealed that she “was taken advantage of” in the early days of her career.

While appearing in WTF with Marc Maron On the podcast, the actress, 56, insisted that she was “too young” for Hollywood fame and alleged that any young star on the film scene has to deal with having “predators” around them.

“I never felt part of a community when I was in Hollywood, simply because I was so young,” the former teen idol said. ‘I didn’t like going to clubs. I feel like I’m more sociable now than I was then. He was simply too young.

Maron, 60, responded: “Well, you’re lucky they didn’t take advantage of you or get you into some kind of horrible situation.”

“Oh, they took advantage of me,” the mother of three said with a laugh. “She You can’t be a young actress in Hollywood and not have predators around.”

The Pretty In Pink star, who started out starring in a national production of Annie in the late 1970s but has now carved out a side career as a translator, revealed that she had “definitely been in questionable situations” during the height of her fame and He tried “with all his might” to take his daughter in a direction other than show business.

Molly, who has 20-year-old Mathilda with husband Panio Gianopoulos, said she relied on her “incredible survival instincts” and her “big superego to figure out” ways to protect herself.

Still, she said growing up in the spotlight “can be heartbreaking.”

‘And now I have a 20-year-old daughter who is dedicated to the same profession, although I did everything I could to convince her to do something else. And it is difficult.’

Earlier this year, Molly claimed that there were certain elements of The Breakfast Club, which follows a group of five detained teenagers, that had “not aged well” since its 1985 release.

She told The Times: “There are a lot of things I really love about the movie, but there are elements that haven’t aged well, like Judd Nelson’s character, John Bender, who essentially sexually harasses my character.” “I’m glad we can look at that and say things are really different now.”

In April 2018, in the wake of the #MeToo movement, Ringwald criticized his film, Sixteen Candles, for featuring a scene in which Michael Schoeffling’s character, Jake Ryan, plays with the idea of ​​taking advantage of his passed out girlfriend.

“I have Caroline in the bedroom right now, passed out,” the character says. “I could rape her 10 different ways if she wanted to.”

“If attitudes toward female subjugation are systemic, and I believe they are, it stands to reason that the art we consume and sanction plays some role in reinforcing those same attitudes,” she wrote. ‘

He continued: ‘I made three films with John Hughes; When they were published, they had enough cultural impact to appear on the cover of Time magazine and for Hughes to be hailed as a genius. His critical reputation has only grown since his death in 2009 at the age of fifty-nine.

Despite admitting that there are “still a lot of things” she loves about her job, Ringwald said that when one of her daughters suggested watching The Breakfast Club together, she “hesitated.”

The actress said she was “concerned that you would find some aspects of this troubling” but that she had not “anticipated that it would ultimately be very troubling” for herself.

This included recalling that they hired an “adult woman for Claire’s underwear shot” for her character.

Additionally, the star revealed that at the time, her mother shut down a “creepy” joke, in which her character’s father was supposed to ask “what the hell happened to your underpants?”