Last week, coinciding with the release of her new book, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, Amy Schumer found herself at the center of a controversy involving the subject of sexual assault. A writer for her Comedy Central show, Kurt Metzger, went off on several sneering online tirades about rape culture that Schumer felt the need to distance herself from tweeting, “I couldn’t be more against his recent actions.” Schumer’s Twitter-based attempt to address the controversy became so muddled at one point that many of her fans thought she had announced the premature cancellation of Inside Amy Schumer. But Tuesday morning, with more that 140 characters at her disposal, Schumer spoke to Howard Stern more eloquently and searingly on her own experience with sexual assault.

Schumer has never shied away from talking about her experience with sexual assault and has used her Comedy Central show to scathingly confront rape culture, but when talking to Stern, the famously outspoken comedian used even more pointed language. Discussing how she unwillingly lost her virginity to her boyfriend in high school when she was “in and out of sleep.” This scenario—known as “acquaintance rape”—has been at the fore recently thanks to the increasingly tragic details of Nate Parker and the woman who claimed he sexually assaulted her in college. Schumer, echoing the frustrations of countless sexual-assault victims, told Stern:

People, they want you to have been raped perfectly, and they want you to be a perfect victim. People hear me say that and they go, ‘no, she’s like a slut’ and ‘I bet she knew’ — like, right away, you start doubting. We’re so critical and it makes victims really not wanna speak up, and so I think it’s me saying, look, I didn’t have a perfect rape.

Schumer’s thoughts on the incident—which is recounted in even more detail in her book—are absolutely vital in a culture where women are still doubted, discouraged, and ignored. Where one woman’s story isn’t enough, and it takes a chorus of voices before alleged abusers like Bill Cosby or alleged harassers like Roger Ailes are held accountable. In speaking with Stern, Schumer—who has distanced herself from, but still employs Metzger—is using her massive celebrity to try to change the conversation around what constitutes sexual assault. And hopefully she can embolden more women to report rape even if it’s not, as she says, a “perfect” one.