SAD NEWS: Jennifer Aniston said this painful comment.....

Speaking as one of Variety’s six Power of Women honorees on Friday, actress Jennifer Aniston opened up about a painful childhood incident that she carried with her into adulthood.

Aniston explained that she has been thinking about the differences between power, strength and her own relationship with both terms, which led her to recall the incident again.

She said, “I have been thinking about my own relationship with that word ‘power,’ which got me thinking about my early association with my own sense of power, something I believe comes from using our voice.”

“I remember a parental figure saying to me around the rather critical age of about 11, after a dinner party, that I was excused from the table because I didn’t have anything interesting to add to the conversation,” she remembered.

“Ouch,” Aniston continued. “It stuck to me, it stuck to me like painfully worded sentences can and if I’m being honest — and I’m being honest because I’m 50 and that comes with the territory — I carried that sentence with me into adulthood.”

The actress and producer explained that even though she has always “felt incredibly comfortable giving a voice to the words of others,” she felt uncomfortable in unfamiliar groups for a large part of her life.

“Put me at a table full of strangers, or at a podium like this, and I’d go right back to being 11-years-old,” she said.

It wasn’t until “Friends” became a hit that she “started seeing (herself) in a different light.”

“I started meeting all of these people who expressed to me how much the show meant to them, how it lifted their spirits during a bad breakup or got them through an illness, and I was just so incredibly moved by that,” she explained. “I began to change the way I thought about my own voice, and what it meant to have a platform to use it.”

The “Murder Mystery” star said that she’s still particularly aware of the messages that are sent to young children, especially girls.