"If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote 'Me too' as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem," wrote the actress, who is known for her roles in "Who's the Boss?," "Melrose Place" and "Charmed," and as a host on "Project Runway All Stars."
Women listened. Within hours, tweets with the words "me too" began appearing in droves. By 3 o'clock Monday morning, almost 200,000 #metoo tweets were published by Twitter's count. The stories came pouring forth on Facebook as well with nearly 80,000 people said to be "talking about this" by the wee hours Monday.