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It didn’t take the Ray Rice elevator video to get Kerry Washington talking about domestic violence. 

In fact, it was the day before news outlets were looping security camera images of the NFL running back punching out his then-fiancee Janay Palmer that the “Scandal” actress was filming a public service announcement about a rarely discussed component of domestic violence known as financial abuse.

“For many, many of those cases — 98 percent of those cases — the financial abuse is what keeps a woman trapped,” Washington said. “Not being able to control your finances, destroying a woman’s credit, jeopardizing her job.”

In her PSA, Washington says “one in four women will be a victim of domestic violence. Finances are almost always a weapon of choice.”

Washington rarely talks to reporters about anything outside of her work. She keeps her private life so private that many in Hollywood were surprised by the news in June 2013 that she had married former NFL cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha, with whom Washington welcomed their first child, daughter Isabelle Amarachi, in April.

Washington said she’s taken guidance in her new role as working mother from her own mom, as well as another working mother: “Scandal” creator Shonda Rhimes.

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source: BCNN1.com

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