During the 2000s, Megan Fox was a staple on the big screen. She cemented her career as one of Hollywood’s most in-demand stars after appearing in Transformers and its sequel. But it turns out that Fox was suffering with her fame and how individuals in the industry treated her behind the scenes. She says she had a “genuine psychological breakdown” after being hypersexualized in a new interview, which we are heartbroken to hear.

To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the horror comedy Jennifer’s Body, in which Fox played as the eponymous character, Fox sat down with Diablo Cody, the film’s writer and executive producer, on Entertainment Tonight for an in-depth talk about their respective careers.

During their talk, Fox said that she was sexualized by “every producer” she worked with around the time of the film’s release.

“It wasn’t just that movie,” Fox explained, “it was every day of my life, all the time, with every project I worked on and every producer I worked with. It preceded a breaking point for me.”

The actress was severely affected by the pressure of unwanted attention.

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“I think I had a genuine psychological breakdown where I wanted just nothing to do,” Fox stated. “I didn’t want to be seen, I didn’t want to have to take a photo, do a magazine, walk a carpet, I didn’t want to be seen in public at all because of the fear, and the belief, and the absolute certainty that I was going to be mocked, or spat at, or someone was going to yell at me, or people would stone me or savage me for just being out.”

“I went through a very dark moment after that,” Fox admits.

“I didn’t look perfect. I was too fat. I was too thin. I was stupid. I was offensive. I was a waste of space. I was a bad actress, whatever. All of the things you can think of, I anticipated experiencing that because my belief system was from what I had experienced,” she explained.

The actress said that she tried to speak up about her own #MeToo experiences while growing up in Hollywood and working on numerous film and television sets, but that her ideas were dismissed.

“I feel like I was out in front of the #MeToo movement before it happened, speaking out and saying, ‘Hey, these things are happening to me and they’re not OK,'” Fox told the publication. “And everyone was like, ‘Oh well, f–k you. We don’t care, you deserve it.’ Because everybody talked about how you looked or how you dressed or the jokes you made.”

Despite calling herself a feminist, Fox acknowledged during their one-on-one talk that she doesn’t feel there is a “space in feminism” for her.

The performer noted that she frequently feels left out of public feminist discussions.

“I feel like feminists don’t want me to be a part of their group,” she remarked.

“And what are we talking about then, what is feminism, what is supporting females if there’s only certain ones of us you support?”

Fox, now 33, says she’s in a lot better position as a result of being a mother. “I think getting pregnant was the first real breakthrough,” the mother of three said, “where my consciousness shifted and my mind opened up and I was able to see from a bird’s-eye view and breath and take it in. And then another kid, and then another kid and with every kid I feel like that’s always been the doorway into a better version of myself.”