The famous and beautiful actress Thandie Newton has opened up about being sexually assaulted when she was young and naive.
The 43-year- old English actor, is well known for her work in films like Mission Impossible, and the Crash. Newton revealed in an interview with W Magazine that when she was just 18 years old, she had been sexually assaulted by a filmmaker during an audition. Newton did not mention the director’s identity who sexually abused her nor did she said the name of the film she was auditioning for that time.
“A director, on a callback, had a camera shooting up my skirt and asked me to touch my t–s and think about the guy making love to me in the scene,” she said. “I thought, ‘Ok, this is a little weird,’ but there was a female casting director in the room and I’d done weird stuff before so I did it.”
She stated that the violence did not stop just in the audition. Years later, after such terrible event, at Cannes Film Festival, a drunk produced approached her and said he had seen her recently. Newton confessed that the producer “lurched away” very impressed by having said that to her.
According to the English actress, when her husband asked the producer an explanation of what he was talking about, he realized that the filmmaker was showing that abused audition tape to his friends after playing poker at his house, and they would all “get off on it.”
Newton said that she was so naïve when she was young and at the beginning of her career. Now, she realizes how important is to prepare our children. She believes that her confession will help save others to stop being sexually abused by a filmmaker.
Sexually abused Celebrities
This is not the first time a celebrity has confessed had been sexually assaulted. Lady Gaga admitted that she was raped by a record producer when she was 19 years old. She explains that when she had that terrible experience, that traumatized her. Her song Swine is about her raping years ago.
Shia Labeouf opened up in 2014 that a woman had raped him during his #IAMSORRY performance art Project earlier that year. He explains being in a room with a lady who whipped his legs for ten minutes and stripped his clothes to rape him.
The Gabriell Union revealed that at 19 years old she was violated at a shoe store. She confessed that a guy robbed the shop while she and a coworker were closing up. The man raped her at gunpoint.
Madonna was also violated when she was 19 years old. She confessed this terrible incident in an interview with Howard Stern. She said that needed to make a phone call, but she did not have the money, then a guy offered her help and persuaded her to make the call inside his house, but instead she got raped.
Source: UpRoxx