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Days Of Our Lives actress Alison Sweeney has revealed that her mother, Polly, once removed her from a potentially 'inappropriate' situation when she was working as a child actor and said she is 'so grateful' for how her parents looked after her.
Alison, 47, landed her first television role at the age of four and always 'wanted to be an actor.' She has praised her mom and dad for never leaving her 'alone with anybody' when she was working as a kid, and also for implementing strict parenting rules in order for her to pursue her dream.
Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com, Alison touched on recent claims that have come to light from her fellow actresses, such as Rebel Wilson who accused her Grimsby co-star, Sacha Baron Cohen, of 'sexually harassing' her, and Sharon Stone, who claimed she was encouraged to sleep with Billy Baldwin when they were filming 1993 film Sliver.
'I completely have so much compassion... my God, these heartbreaking stories are just devastating and I can see how it could have happened,' Alison said, before adding: 'But I'm just grateful that that's not my story.
Alison Sweeney has revealed that her mother, Polly, once removed her from a potentially 'inappropriate' situation when she was working as a child actor
Alison began working professionally at the age of four and made her television debut in a Kodak commercial
The Days Of Our Lives star said that she always wanted to act from a young age, but her parents implemented strict parenting rules
The actress, pictured here as a child with her mom, said that her parents never left her 'alone with anybody'
'It's really hard to compare the industry [now] to what it was 20 years ago because people are talking about this stuff in a way that was never discussed when I was growing up as a teenager and a young adult in the 90s and 2000s, and obviously before that.
'I am so lucky, I've been working professionally since I was four years old and my mother and my father were very involved in my career and every day on set, and I was so lucky to have that experience and the opportunity.
'I can only speak to my own journey but I wanted to be an actor, I loved it so much, I wanted it since I was four years old, and so I can't believe sometimes I wake up and this is my life.
'So, my parents were never in a situation of trying to pressure me to do the job or learn my lines or whatever. I was the driver of that, I wanted to be there.'
The blonde actress, who has reprised her beloved role as Hannah Swensen in the new Hallmark movie One Bad Apple: A Hannah Swensen Mystery, explained that her parents had 'a really important power structure in place' when she was acting as a child.
'The punishment if I was bad would be that I would go home,' she said. 'They'd say, "if you don't keep your grades up, you don't get to do the acting thing," that was always the response.
'I was driving and so my parents were able to maintain
