Reese Witherspoon Reveals She Was Sexually Assaulted by a Director at 16

Hollywood Reporter ^ | 10/17/17 | Hilary Lewis

[MoochPooch]

Unfortunately, she’s shooting herself in the foot with this, as are all the actresses who have recently jumped onto the bandwagon.

Actresses have always had a bad rap. They are considered little more than glorified prostitutes. Now this whole debacle with Weinstein will place more negative sanctions on them. People will look at them and wonder, “Who did she sleep with to get ahead? How did she earn her Oscar?”

[Wuli]

where Reese was acting at 16

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104089/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_55

[Wuli]

where Reese was acting at 16

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104089/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_55

This was the director on the movie Reese did at 16:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0855035/?ref_=tt_ov_dr

[Smellin Salt]

She’s so brave, coming out about it after she got her fame and fortune.

She would have been best served to keep her filthy mouth shut, like she did for all these years.

What a effing fool.

[Smellin Salt]

That’s exactly right, and they’re not smart enough to see it. They see themselves a some sort of heroes by coming forward now.

[yarddog]

She really was pretty.

[dangus]

Enough #MeToo ism. #NameNames

[SgtHooper]

Those three names should be pasted out front, and let them deny. After which she should then name the guilty party. None of them want to even touch this one.

[cicero2k]

What we are not hearing:

RW to teenage girls: “I had to compromise my integrity, sanity and self esteem in order to become famous. Don’t do it, it’s not worth it.”

Or something like that.

Until RW and others make these kinds of statements...we will continue to believe it was worth it.

Instead we hear, in some cases, accounts of competitive pressure from other teenage girls. The other girls are to blame; and the (usually) male decision makers.

Women need to exercise solidarity in how far they will go, if you know what I mean.

[PAR35]

So she still won’t name names?

[Dante3]

Makes me wonder why she won’t reveal his name even at this time.

[pepsi_junkie]

Well, the chill that hit every other industry back in 1991 (thanks to Anita Hill) is about to hit Hollywood. Everyone will begin to be scared of being named (directly or by implication, as Witherspoon is doing with this statement) as a molester.

Fortunately, the solution is obvious. Go back to the Shakespearean way, only hire men to play women's roles. Problem solved. And actresses will no longer have to worry about being paid less than the male actors in the same film because actresses won't be in films anymore. Another problem solved! I'm on a roll!

[LottieDah]

“Where were her parents?”

Why would you or your parents want you to continue in a business where you sexually assaulted by a director? It boggles the mind that only did Witherspoon remain in the movie biz so did scores of others who were raped and assaulted. Why? Any normal person would have high tailed it out of Hollywood.

[x]

Any normal person would have high tailed it out of Hollywood.

Then the rapists/assaulters win.

[This I Wonder32460]

Men can be raped too, leading to ptsd and other mental illness.

[Hat-Trick]

Or, maybe a redesigned Oscar Trophy where with 2 hands/arms wrapping around from behind to squeeze the breasts.

Or, do the Oscar trophy with the See No Evil, Speak No Evil, Hear No Evil theme, because Weinstein was the worst kept secret in the entire town, and they (men and women alike) all went along with it for years, as long as there was something in it for them.

[minnesota_bound]

Reese Witherspoon still protecting the director so he can assault other children.

[funfan]

Thinking the same thing.

[righttackle44]

All right, all you guys. Shut up. The double-ugly one, Whoopi Goldberg, has excused all of this by saying that producer/director rape isn’t rape rape. It’s a director or producer just having fun and releasing his tensions.

[outofsalt]

Actress Reese Witherspoon has and estimated net worth of $80 million.