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Ashley Judd: Was sexually harassed by Hollywood film executive

Actress Ashley Judd has revealed she was sexually harassed by a top Hollywood studio executive.
Ashley Judd: Was sexually harassed by Hollywood film executive
Actress Ashley Judd has revealed she was sexually harassed by a top Hollywood studio executive.
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The 47-year-old Divergent star said she was repeatedly summoned to hotel rooms while filming Kiss the Girls in the late 90s by the unnamed head of a rival studio and asked to watch him shower, reported Daily Mirror.
"He was very stealth and expert about it. He groomed me, which is a technical term - 'Oh, come meet at the hotel for something to eat.' It went on in these stages.
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It was so disgusting.
"He physically lured me by saying, 'Oh, help me pick out what I'm going to wear.' There was a lot that happened between the point of entry and the bargaining. When I kept saying no to everything, there was a huge asymmetry of power and control in that room."
Judd said years later she found out that a number other actresses had also experienced the same thing.
"Only when we were sitting around talking about it did we realise our experiences were identical. There was a mutual strengthening and fortification of our resolve.

"The ultimate thing when I was weaselling out of everything else was, 'Will you watch me take a shower?' And all the other women, sitting around this table with me, said, 'Oh my god - that's what he said to me too.'"
The actress, who has never been offered a movie by the executive's studio, went on to say she beat herself up for a while following the incident, before realising there was something "incredibly wrong and illegal about it".
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