The actress, who has also appeared in “Bring It On” and “Dollhouse,” cited the current climate, which has seen multiple accounts of abuse of power in Hollywood and elsewhere, as assisting her with the decision to come forward: “With every person that speaks out, every banner that drops down onto my iphone screen disclosing similar stories/truths, my resolve strengthens.
Fairly early on he nicknamed me “Jailbait” and brazenly called me by this name in a sick flirty way in front of others (at the time, I remember asking one of my older brothers what it meant).”
Why didn’t an adult on the set find his predatory advances strange - that over-the-top special attention he gave me. “Why speak out now?” Dushku’s post continued, “I was 12, he was 36. I think she’s making this up in her imagination.
Speaking to Deadline in response to the allegations, Kramer said, “These are outlandish, manipulated lies. #EndForcedArbitration I known about it, there would have been no mercy. WATCH: shares her personal story of the sexual harassment she faced at CBS and the secret arbitration process she was forced to enter.
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Dushku would have received for the balance of her contract as a series regular, and was determined in a mutually agreed upon mediation process at the time.”ĭushku said she is hoping to help end for others the secret arbitration process she felt forced to enter involving her allegations. “The settlement of these claims reflects the projected amount that Ms. Dushku’s claims are an example that, while we remain committed to a culture defined by a safe, inclusive and respectful workplace, our work is far from done,” CBS said in a statement to CNN around the time of the agreement. “After reflecting on this further, I better understand that what I said was both not funny and not appropriate and I am sorry and regret the pain this caused Eliza.” When Eliza told me that she wasn’t comfortable with my language and attempt at humor, I was mortified to have offended her and immediately apologized,” Weatherly told the New York Times in 2018. “During the course of taping our show, I made some jokes mocking some lines in the script. I suffered near constant sexual harassment from my co-star.”ĭushku added that Weatherly called her “legs” and talked about his sperm. However, in my first week on my new job I found myself the brunt of crude, sexualized and lewd verbal assaults. The actress said in her testimony: “In 2017, I was aggressively pursued by CBS to become a co-lead in a show called ‘Bull.’ I was told that the role would be a six-year commitment to play a smart, strong leading lady - a competent, high-powered lawyer meant to counter balance the existing male lead, and that the role had been written specifically with me in mind. In 2018, CBS agreed to pay Dushku $9.5 million after she claimed she was written off of “Bull” in retaliation for accusations she came forward with against Michael Weatherly.īefore Congress, Dushku was able to talk outside a non-disclosure agreement. Eliza Dushku testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday about her sexual harassment accusations during her time on “Bull.”
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