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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."
(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...
Sorry Reese but you were silent until it was safe. Thus, allowing other people to get attacked.
Where were her parents?
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and getting rich.
Name names or STFU.
One of the three directors from just above.
Well, did her experience help jump start her career?
Is she now more famous than the director whom she shared her experience with?
Who knows, this thread is useless with out names.
It’s like saying you know who robbed and old lady of her purse, but you aren’t going to say, because you shared in the booty.
Blinded by the prospect of wealth and fame for the family?
It could have been a director for whom she auditioned for a part she did not get. She does not give enough information because she doesn’t want to be sued but she has succeeded in casting doubt on the reputations of innocent people.
I remember Amanda Peterson’s parents saying she was raped when she was only 15. I wonder if that played a part in her bizarre behavior in her last years.
Of course drugs do that too and she was in to them.
I think all these actors should take a knee during every Oscar presentation and maybe come up with a kneeling Oscar trophy.
Very true.
But hey...a buck's a buck!
Name names or it didn’t happen.
Amanda Peterson was so beautiful in the 1987 film "Can't Buy Me Love". Evidently she was already dealing with the after effects of her rape then. She died in 2015, born 1971.
Excellent idea. It would the very height of hypocrisy NOT to take a knee.
Nice petard ya got there,Pedowood!
Haha!
So she really was a mediocre talent who slept her way to the top. Who else? Any guesses?
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