Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst said on Wednesday that she was sexually assaulted by a friend in college — an admission she made a day after it was revealed she accused her husband of abuse in divorce filings.

“I didn’t want to share it with anybody, and in the era of hashtag-MeToo survivors, I always believed that every person is different and they will confront their demons when they’re ready,” Ernst told Bloomberg news in an interview.

Ernst told the news outlet she decided to speak about the abuse after details of her divorce from husband Gail Ernst became public. The GOP lawmaker said that during her 26-year marriage, she was the victim of repeated verbal and mental abuse, the Des Moines Register reported Tuesday.

“Gail has been very cruel. This has been an extremely painful journey,” she wrote, according to the report.

Ernst also told reporters Wednesday that she is a “survivor” of sexual abuse who will support other women who have been victimized.

“Eventually, things can be OK, and you can move beyond that and you don’t have to be defined in one bucket or another as being ‘a survivor,’” she told reporters at an event in Cedar Falls, the Des Moines Register reported. “You can just be Joni or John or Carrie. It doesn’t matter. You can move beyond that.”