Poh Ling Yeow of MasterChef Australia fame has spoken about the importance of women speaking up if theyve experienced harassment in the workplace.

I think its incredibly important [to speak up], the 47-year-old told HuffPost Australia. Ive never had an experience like that but my heart goes out to women who have suffered under an unfair workplace environment.

I know there are certain professions where this sort of behaviour is protected by men but also women who themselves feel under threat, she continued, though didnt specify a particular industry.

When reflecting on her own experiences of feeling safe as a woman, Poh, who features in LOreal Paris Women of Worth campaign, said there were a couple of incidents of concern while dating in her younger years, and had she not trusted her instinct to get away at the time, things couldve turned bad quickly.