Posted on 10/19/2017 4:34:59 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Veteran actress Laura Dern revealed Wednesday that she was sexually assaulted when she was 14-years-old.
Dern, now 50, appeared on The Ellen Show and explained that hearing other actresses at the Elle Women in Hollywood event speak out about abuse they’ve experienced helped her come to grips with a past she said she had “justified.”
“I woke up and I realized that in that space I talked about how I was one of the lucky ones because I was raised by actors who told me their stories and told me what to look out for, and I realized that I was I still justifying behavior,” said Dern, whose the daughter of Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd.
“And it was my mom who said, ‘No, no, no, Laura — that was sexual assault. That was harassment. That was assault. No, you were 14 then,'” the Jurassic Park star said.
The Big Little Lies actress applauded the industry-wide commission to tackle sexual harassment and “predators” that Lucasfilm president and Star Wars producer Kathleen Kennedy suggested amid the swirling Harvey Weinstein sexual assault scandal.
Dern also praised the women who spoke out at the Elle event about the abuse they’ve endured in Hollywood and beyond.
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Names please?
It wasn’t a T-Rex?
Why would anyone hit that ?
I would hit it if I went back to 1993.
But in 1993, she is still an adult, you see. This unnamed pervert went at her when she was 14.
Names or it didn’t happen.
I wonder if Laura Dern has,like 99% of the rest of showbiz,ever applauded Roman Polanski.
What kind of Father was Bruce to allow this to happen to his daughter?
I can’t stand Laura Dern (politically), but there’s really no reason to think she’s lying. Yeah, I know - “name names”. Still, 14? I think of my own three girls who are in that range.
Names please?
No names, could be a cheap shot to help sinking careers as actresses and models?
The actress who played the oldest daughter on LAST MAN STANDING was replaced by an actress that’s not nearly as talented and certainly not as pretty. I have to wonder if she refused someone’s advances and was replaced.
If given the chance I never would have hurt her at 14....but I sure as hell would have *begged* her at 18.
Who is not whose. Sheesh.
Additionally, a name Laura?
Watch Wild at Heart and then get back to me.
Virtue signaling is cheap.
I don’t think it’s fair to the producers and directors that aren’t corrupt (if there are any) to smear so many of them namelessly, but then knowing what kind of twisted garbage passes as art from Hollywood, I’m ambivalent.
Would you have thought for even a second of allowing them to pursue a career in Hollywood?
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