Alyssa Milano has revealed that she had two abortions in 1993, and opened up about the experience on the podcast Sorry Not Sorry, explaining that there were “real” reasons behind them.

“I was in love for the first time, in the breathless way you can only be in love when you are young,” she said. “It was huge, overwhelming even. It filled every part of living. And it was a joyful and exciting and powerful time in my life.”

Alyssa said she was on birth control when she and her then-boyfriend conceived a child but added they were “not ready to be parent[s].”

She was also on acne medication that was likely to cause birth defects.

“I knew at that time, I was not equipped to be a mother,” she explained. “And so I chose to have an abortion. I chose. It was my choice. And it was absolutely the right choice for me. It was not an easy choice. It was not something I wanted, but it was something that I needed, like most health care is.”

She added, “They tell you the pill is 99 percent effective at preventing pregnancies and yet, a few months later, I found out I was pregnant again. So I had done what I knew to do to prevent pregnancy and was still pregnant. So once again I made the right decision to end that pregnancy.”