“I’m at a very public place. I had my suit on. I was handling my business for the TV show I was on at that time. He and I were on the same network,” Ralph recalled the incident.

“This man walked in, grabbed me by the back of my neck, turned me around and rammed his nasty ass tongue down my throat,” Ralph said. “And everybody at the network saw it.”

“Speak up, tell your truth, do not carry the burden of the pain, especially if you feel like it’s something you can’t work through,” Ralph said.

Ralph was ready to report the incident, even calling the former mayor of New Orleans, Marc Morial, who was in office from 1994 to 2002. (During that timeframe, Ralph starred on the UPN sitcom “Moesha.”).

Ralph said the mayor immediately came to her defense, asking, “You want me to send the police there right now? ‘Cause we will fix this, you know what!” But the network, Ralph claims, asked her to stay silent.

“Somebody on the network tapped me on the shoulder saying, ‘Please don’t,’” Ralph shared. “They did not want any bad press around their show and did not care what had just happened to me.”

“They saw what happened,” Ralph continued. Recalling what she was told by network executives and bystanders, she added, “It’s not that bad is it? Please don’t say anything. We don’t need the bad press. It’s a brand new show. Yours is a new show … It wasn’t so bad after all, was it?”

“That’s the kind of stuff that happens,” Ralph said. “That’s what makes it hard for women to speak up about these things.”