Posted on 10/17/2017 1:50:40 PM PDT by Enlightened1
The Oscar-winning actress spoke out about her experience at Elle's Women in Hollywood event Monday night.
Reese Witherspoon opened up about her own experiences with sexual harassment and assault in Hollywood during a speech at Elle's Women in Hollywood event Monday night.
The actress, who's been starring in movies since 1991, revealed she was sexually assaulted by a director when she was just 16 and said this wasn't the only time she'd experienced inappropriate behavior in her career, adding that she felt ashamed for staying silent.
“[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,” Witherspoon said. “And I wish I could tell you that was an isolated incident in my career, but sadly it wasn’t. I’ve had multiple experiences of harassment and sexual assault and I don’t speak about them very often.”
Earlier she reflected on the past week, in which multiple women in Hollywood have come forward about experiences of sexual harassment and assault, including some allegedly by disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein.
“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 that are forced to remember and relive a lot of ugly truths,” Witherspoon said. “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, about being honest, the guilt for not speaking up earlier, for not taking action."
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Let the women speak.
I wonder if there are Scientology links working somewhere.
That's right. But this way she gets to posture, and to play the victim, while smearing and tarring every male director she spoke to during that period.
Yeah, they all deserve it. Guilty for knowing about the rampant abuse and not speaking out about it. There are other ways to make a good living in the US without being business partners with Satan.
Anybody that didn't know, had to be brain dead.
The name of the scandal "Harveywood".
The new award should be a wooden phallus called a "Woodie".
They come out now because it's "en vogue" to pile on and it's safe now that Weinstein has been taken out.
How many would've been spared the same experiences if they had backed up Feldman?
Exactly!
I have earned much respect for Feldman brave enough to come on TV and expose Hollywood. I have no doubt that was not easy.
It's easy to say, "I wouldn't do that for a million dollars!" when nobody's ever offered you a million dollars to do something.
Have someone place a million dollars on the table and then ask yourself what you'd do for it.
Reese Witherspoon has a net worth in excess of a hundred million dollars, ensuring her family's financial comfort for generations to come. She's lived a life of glamor and celebrity.
Everything has a price. Some girls, some parents, weren't willing to pay it and took the bus back to Palookaville, living far different lives than Reese Witherspoon. For others, the decision was easy. "I'll do anything for that."
The byword of many a great commie.
What? Did you send your daughter or son out there?
I don’t have a son or daughter.
But I do have brains enough not to make jest out of another man’s children.
Scumbag.
Well, since you're vigorously defending the Hollywood rape/pedo cult and viciously attacking me, one could conclude that you are one of them.
I don’t have a son or daughter.
Hmmmmm....the plot thickens.
Hey, p.s. Scumbag.
Don’t if you can’t travel.
I’ll come to you.
Well, it seems we’ve clearly established that you are vulgar, abusive and violent.
Now are you making a simple threat of violence, or is this a death threat?
We’ve established that you are a scumbag, who smears his ugly mouth on others’ family members, living or dead.
We have also established that you are the common kind of New England coward who is afraid to back up his words, and operates only from behind a keyboard.
You know what? I am vulgar, abusive and violent when I encounter a vulgar, abusive and gutless scumbag like you. But that’s not going to happen, is it?
Of course it isn’t. We both knew it all along.
Fame. Fortune. Celebrity. Rape. Abuse. Mental illness. Drug addiction. Serial plastic surgery. Early death.
Hollywood has a huge dark side. Palookaville is a better choice.
I have no idea what you are talking about. I was never vulgar and I never smeared your non-existant family members, I simply tried to understand your motivation in defending the Hollywood filth.
I guess that you’re simply speaking for all the good Christian and morally virtuous professionals, who dominate the film industry (in case there actually are any) from the guilt by association I leveled at them for failing to “out” the guilty.
I still contend that the 90% filth in the Hollywood cult make the rest look bad.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
- Edmund Burke
Have a nice day.
“you are the common kind of New England coward who is afraid to back up his words”
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What,exactly,is the “common kind of New England coward”?
I live in New England and have no idea what you are talking about.
Please enlighten me.
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