Terry Crews expected that his fellow Black men would back him up after he found the courage to talk up about his experience with sexual assault, but he was “surprised” to search out Black women’s support as a substitute.

During an interview on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live earlier this week, the actor, who claims he was groped by Hollywood agent Adam Venit within the presence of his wife, shared that Black women showed up for him probably the most. Venit denies the allegation.

“I actually have to say this: the people who surprised me probably the most were Black women,” said Crews. “Black men didn’t want any a part of it.”

“All my support got here from Black women, straight up. And that’s form of wild. It shocked me. It shocked my family,” he told the show’s host, Andy Cohen.

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The Brooklyn Nine-Nine actor went on to make clear why it was that he expected Black men’s support.

“I believed, here I’m as a Black man saying some things that we’ve all been through, and a number of guys [were] identical to, ‘Man, you’re weak. You’re sorry. It is best to have hit him. It is best to have knocked him out. It is best to have did all these things,’” he recalled.

But Crews acknowledged that Black women deeply understood the shock that survivors often undergo after they are being violated.

“Black women were like, ‘No, no. It doesn’t work like that.’ And I used to be shocked on the split inside my very own community. It was deep,” Crews said.

Black women to the rescue? Yep. Sounds about right.