Case Harvey Weinstein : Blake Lively a victim also of sexual harassment – Gala

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The scandal Weinstein never ends. The victims of the producer hollywood come out one at a time of silence, just like the actresses who have suffered assaults other sexual predators. Blake Lively is one of it.

It’s like being in an episode of Gossip Girl. With a frightening scenario, and that continues to bounce.Since the outbreak of the case of Harvey Weinstein, the film producer accused of sexual violence, the casualty list grew longer by the day. Actresses, models, all women who are victims of the founder of Miramax reveal what they have experienced. But the scandal goes beyond the simple case of Weinstein. These practices of sexual harassment and blackmail seems to be common in the middle of the cinema and other actresses who have been victims say they are.

This is the case of Blake Lively, revealed in the series Gossip Girl. On Thursday, she confided to the Los Angeles Times , saying that she has had a traumatic experience on the set of a movie, without specifying which one. His attacker was neither a producer, nor a director, but a make-up artist. “He said inappropriate things, he insisted to apply my lipstick with his fingers,” she says today. Blake Lively adds : “One day, while I was sleeping on the place of filming, I woke up and he was trying to film me. I was dressed, but it was very voyeuristic, it was terrifying”.

The actress then spoke to the producer of the film, but this last has not been heard. Shocked to encounter a feeling of general indifference, she made a call to a lawyer. An investigation followed, the makeup artist has been dismissed from the filming, but the producers have recasé on another film. Blake Lively, states : “one of The managers wrote him a letter of recommendation because that person did not want there to be animosity “.

In Hollywood Reporter, the wife of Ryan Reynolds also commented on the case, Weinstein. “I’ve never experienced this with Harvey in any way whatsoever (…) I had never heard these stories, nothing specific, but it is devastating. (…) We must believe the people that tell these stories and we need to take seriously “.

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