. - [jenna ortega] there is no, "me too", without tarana burke.h victims of sexual assault. - what helped them break through was knowing that i had the same experience that they did. my, "me too", was the thing that opened doors for them. once i did that, it sort of changed everything. (solemn music) - a friend of mine who was a fan of tarana burke's work took a screenshot of something that tarana burke had posted on facebook and it said something like, "if every woman talked about the sexual violence she had faced by saying, "me too", we could be more comfortable talking about it out in the open". and i sent it to alyssa milano. - and she said, "i saw this on facebook, i don't know if you want to do something with it, but i think you might be the right person to sort of tweet this out". i was like, "whatever, okay, i'm going to do it, 'cause i just don't know how else to change the narrative". in the original tweet, there wasn't even a hashtag in it. - all of us went to sleep and we woke up the next morning to, "me too", trending. - [news anchor]

with us tarana burke and molly jong-fast. thank you for your patience. nk, okay, well, that happened back in 2017, 2018, 2019. i wonder when you see stories like sean combs, that might not have ever happened although you were talking about this a decade before harvey weinstein. >> there's no question. people say we need a me too in this industry or that industry and realize we have been living in it for the last seven years. we don't get to diddy or any of the things we've seen in the last seven years without the movement. >> talk to me about that moment with the tweet and what happened after that. >> the moment with the tweet was absolutely a surprise. seven years ago, it was definitely shocking to see how fast it grew, but i was not surprised by the number. he mentions thousands. it was actually millions. there were 12 million responses across social media in 24 hours of people saying "me too" because this had affected their lives. >> part of it is lifting the veil of shame and secrecy. you worked in this industry, so you had seen all of the victims. wh