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Reese Witherspoon Claims Director Sexually Assaulted Her at 16
breitbart ^ | Oct 2017 | Ben Kew

Posted on 10/17/2017 9:42:41 AM PDT by doug from upland

Actress Reese Witherspoon has revealed that she was sexually assaulted by a director when she was 16 years old, the latest in a series of claims about abuse in the film industry.

“This has been a really hard week for women in Hollywood, for women all over the world, and a lot of situations and a lot of industries are forced to remember and relive a lot of ugly truths,” Witherspoon said at an event in Beverley Hills this week.

“I have my own experiences that have come back to me very vividly and I find it really hard to sleep, hard to think, hard to communicate a lot of the feelings that I’ve been having about anxiety, honestly, the guilt for not speaking up earlier.”

She divulged, “I have my own experiences that have come back to me very vividly and I find it really hard to sleep, hard to think, hard to communicate a lot of the feelings that I’ve been having about anxiety, honestly, the guilt for not speaking up earlier.” Witherspoon, who debuted on the silver screen at 15, continued, “[I feel] true disgust at the director who assaulted me when I was 16 years old and anger at the agents and the producers who made me feel that silence was a condition of my employment.”

The Academy Award-winning actress went on to claim that the incident was just one of a number of times she had been sexually abused throughout her career. “I wish that I could tell you that was an isolated incident in my career, but sadly it wasn’t,” she said. “I’ve had multiple experiences of harassment and sexual assault and I don’t speak about them very often.

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To: Terry Mross
Her father is a doctor. She didn’t come from a line of naive hillbillies.

Well then "father" is not the title I would apply to him. Sperm-provider, maybe?

61 posted on 10/17/2017 10:18:26 AM PDT by Shethink13 (there are 0 electoral votes in the state of denial)
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To: Ancesthntr

62 posted on 10/17/2017 10:20:30 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: DoodleBob

I seriously, seriously love your proposal. Won’t happen, but I still love the idea of making such an announcement. And when adherents of the 1st amendment rightly cry “Foul”, lead them gently to the Left’s outrageous attacks on liberty.


63 posted on 10/17/2017 10:20:40 AM PDT by Pecos (A Constitutional republic shouldnÂ’t need to hold its collective breath in fear of lawyers.)
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To: doug from upland
This has been a really hard week for women in Hollywood, for women all over the world, and a lot of situations and a lot of industries are forced to remember and relive a lot of ugly truths, Witherspoon said at an event in Beverley Hills this week.

What's truly sad, is that Witherspoon has knowledge of only one industry, and yet she disparages others industries here.

So even when she comes clean, she still runs cover for the industry that abused her on a number of occasions.

By inference, she claims her industry is no worse than any other.

Reese, good grief...

64 posted on 10/17/2017 10:23:48 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (John McBane is the turd in the national punch-bowl.)
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To: pgkdan

And Marshall was divorced from his first wife in ‘93. Coinkydink?


65 posted on 10/17/2017 10:23:50 AM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: Fhios

Oh there’s the whole #metoo now on social media for those affected by harrassment, assault, etc. I refuse to use it. I’ll wait for the hashtag for those of us who knocked the crap out of someone who tried it on us.


66 posted on 10/17/2017 10:23:52 AM PDT by pnz1 (#IMNOTWITHHER)
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To: montag813

Of course some folks at FREEP always take the stance the woman is lying.


67 posted on 10/17/2017 10:23:58 AM PDT by wiggen (#JeSuisCharlie)
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To: DoodleBob
and join us as we announce the start of hearings on this poisonous atmosphere in Hollywood, with an eye toward regulating studios and actors and actresses under the Commerce Clause

Democrats and liberals LOVE the power of Big Government, so they should go right along with this!

68 posted on 10/17/2017 10:25:13 AM PDT by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: Shethink13

He spent a lot of money getting his daughter famous. Lots of parents are “stage mothers”. They want their children to be famous.

I’ve been told Renee Zellweiger”s father spent tens of thousands of dollars on a publicist in the beginning.


69 posted on 10/17/2017 10:25:29 AM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners.)
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To: laweeks
Where were her parents? Where were the parents of any of these child-actors/actresses?
70 posted on 10/17/2017 10:25:36 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: DoughtyOne
So even when she comes clean, she still runs cover for the industry that abused her on a number of occasions.

By inference, she claims her industry is no worse than any other.

Good point! I had not considered that.

71 posted on 10/17/2017 10:26:01 AM PDT by Shethink13 (there are 0 electoral votes in the state of denial)
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To: Fiddlstix

Now that’s funny, I don’t care who you are.


72 posted on 10/17/2017 10:26:07 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: pgkdan

If, as you say, she was 16 when the movie came out she was likely 15 when it was in production.

More likely the assault occurred with one of her projects released in ‘93, I think.

This is the danger of not naming names, Reese. A guessing game implicates the innocent.


73 posted on 10/17/2017 10:28:36 AM PDT by fullchroma
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To: Terry Mross
He spent a lot of money getting his daughter famous.

Is he still living? Would love for some gutsy reporter to get his thoughts. I can dream a little, can't I?

74 posted on 10/17/2017 10:29:27 AM PDT by Shethink13 (there are 0 electoral votes in the state of denial)
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To: neverevergiveup
Where were her parents? Where were the parents of any of these child-actors/actresses?

Silly boy, when your little darling is going to bring home millions of dollars, then who really cares? Look at the parents of Michael Jackson's victims who became millionaires after they let their kids get molested by the liberal saint.

75 posted on 10/17/2017 10:30:20 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: Shethink13

I think he’s still practicing. I’d love to hear his opinion, too.


76 posted on 10/17/2017 10:30:24 AM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners.)
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To: honurider

These guys do good movies.
I like Facing the Giants and Flywheel best.

http://sherwoodpictures.com/


77 posted on 10/17/2017 10:31:55 AM PDT by spankalib ("I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.")
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To: laweeks

“Silly boy, when your little darling is going to bring home millions of dollars, then who really cares?”

That’s called prostitution, and in this case child prostitution by parents. That should result in at least 20 years in prison.


78 posted on 10/17/2017 10:32:10 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: doug from upland

To understand Hollywood all you have to do is note that even now that all these women are supposedly telling their stories, none of them are naming names.


79 posted on 10/17/2017 10:32:30 AM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: doug from upland

Amazing how much comes out of the woodwork now.

Name the person. Nail him to the wall.


80 posted on 10/17/2017 10:33:41 AM PDT by redgolum
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