WATCH – full opening statement: "I am honored to use my platform and story to help create additional civil rights protections for survivors across the nation under the Sexual Assault #SurvivorsBillofRights."įull video here: /ezi14zs3mY Because what happens is you get blacklisted, your career is in danger - after that, no one wants to work with you.” But I did not have the confidence, or I did not feel safe enough, to come out. “And since I came forward with my story I have had thousands and thousands of men come to me and say ‘Me too, this is my story. “What happened to me has happened to many many other men in Hollywood,” Crews said of his experience. The committee was reviewing the implementation of that law, which was enacted two years ago.”
Am I going to be a part of this or am I gonna take a stand, and there are projects I had to turn down.” In May of last year, Lerner and his Millennium Entertainment were hit with a lawsuit from a former employee, alleging sexual harassment, a hostile work environment, and gender discrimination.Ĭrews was testifying at a hearing about the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Bill of Rights, which Deadline notes “provides new rights for victims of sexual violence in the federal criminal code. Abusers protect abusers - and this is one thing I had to decide, whether I was going to draw the line on. Simply because this same producer is under his own … investigation. When Crews was asked if he was set to appear in the film, he responded, “No. Since Crews came forward with his story, he has claimed to be the victim of potential hacking and mounting pressure to drop his case against Venit. Later that week, Crews filed his own police report regarding the incident, and when the Los Angeles City Attorney’s office declined to prosecute because the incident fell outside of the statute of limitations, Crews opted to sue the agent and WME, who had since returned to WME after a 30-day suspension. He just grinned like a jerk.”Ī month later, Crews’ alleged assailant was revealed to be William Morris Endeavor agent Adam Venit, who was then placed on leave from the high-powered agency while they investigated the claim. “Jumping back I said, ‘What are you doing?!’ My wife saw everything we looked at him like he was crazy. Crews said all the allegations emerging against Harvey Weinstein was “giving PTSD.” “My wife I were at a Hollywood function last year a high level Hollywood executive came over me and groped my privates,” Crews wrote at the time. The NFL-athlete-turned-actor revealed in a 16-part thread that he was groped by a Hollywood executive at a function in Los Angeles in 2016. In October of last year, Terry Crews took to Twitter to share his own experience with sexual misconduct in the industry.
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