Tatyana Ali says doctors pushed her crowning baby back inside her body during the traumatic 2016 birth of her first son.

The "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" actress, 47, shared the story on the April 27 episode of Pod Meets World with host Danielle Fishel. Ali said the experience was so dangerous it could have killed her son. She called what happened to her "obstetric violence."

"I mean, I'll be real with you: They pushed him back inside me," Ali said, E! News reported. "My baby was all the way crowned."

Ali, who shares son Edward and 6-year-old son Alejandro with husband Vaughn Rasberry, said her birth plan was ignored from the moment she got to the hospital. She said hospital staff held down her arms and legs for hours. They kept pushing her to take an epidural she did not want.

"It's an incredibly dangerous thing that they did," Ali said. "They could have snapped his neck. But this is after hours of them holding me down, not allowing me to move."

Ali clarified that pushing a crowning baby back inside the mother is not a real medical procedure. "In my records, it shows that [Edward] goes from the lowest station, I saw his hair, I touched his hair, to the highest station, and it doesn't say how that happened," she said.

The delivery ended in an emergency C-section. Edward spent four days in the NICU. He was unable to urinate on his own for five or six days, Complex reported.

A pediatric urologist was the only person at the hospital who acknowledged what happened. "I saw what happened during your birth," Ali recalled the doctor saying. "I think the traumatic nature of his birth is what is causing this."

Ali said the experience pushed her into the reproductive justice movement. She has spoken many times about racial bias in maternal healthcare. "Black women are three to four times more likely to die in childbirth," she said.

Her words match decades of CDC data on Black maternal health outcomes. Research from the National Institutes of Health shows that nearly 90% of Black women report experiencing at least one traumatic event during pregnancy or delivery. As BET.com previously reported, Black women across all income levels and education levels face higher risks during pregnancy than women of any other race.

"I'm supposed to say something because all the people I'm talking to, no one puts a mic in their face," Ali said.