![]() Off script, in front of about 100 crew members and cast members, he once said that he would take me to his rape van and use lube and long phallic things on me and take me over his knee and spank me like a little girl. She didn’t refer to Weatherly by name, but she added that the male co-star “frequently referred to me as ‘legs.’ He would smell me and leeringly look me up and down. This was beyond anything I had experienced in my 30-year career.” I suffered near constant sexual harassment from my co-star. “However, in my first week on my new job I found myself the brunt of crude, sexualized and lewd verbal assaults. “I was told that the role would be a six-year commitment to play a smart, strong leading lady, a confident high-powered lawyer meant to counterbalance the existing male lead, and that the role had been written specifically with me in mind,” Dushku said. She received a $9.5 million settlement from CBS, the Boston Globe reported in 2018. In 2016, Dushku had a recurring role in Season 1 of “Bull” that was meant to become a regular role, but she alleges that she was fired from the show after accusing star Michael Weatherly of sexual harassment. She wrote in a Facebook post that she told her parents, two adult friends, and her brother at the time, but that “No one seemed ready to confront this taboo subject then, nor was I.Actor Eliza Dushku shared her experience facing sexual harassment on the set of CBS’ “ Bull” in front of a House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, speaking out about being fired from the show and forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement. In January, amid an outpouring of accusations prompted by Harvey Weinstein’s downfall, Dushku came forward with allegations that stunt coordinator Joel Kramer molested her during the filming of True Lies, when she was 12 years old and he was 36. This is the second time this year Dushku has spoken up about abusive behavior she’s dealt with over the course of her career. And this dread continues to come up whenever I think of him and that experience.” She also noted in the piece that Weatherly would often refer to his close friendship with CBS head Les Moonves, who was fired for sexual harassment earlier this year. I was made to feel dread nearly all the time I was in his presence. This was classic workplace harassment that became workplace bullying. ![]() “What is hardest to share is the way he made me feel for 10 to 12 hours per day for weeks. In no way was it playful, nor was it joking with two willing participants,” she wrote. For Weatherly’s part, it looks like a deeply insecure power play, about a need to dominate and demean. “Watching the recordings in the settlement process, it is easy to see how uncomfortable, speechless, and frozen he made me feel. “Instead, both commented to the Times in what amounted to more deflection, denial, and spin.” As a result, she wrote, she felt “compelled to chronicle what actually happened.” “I was under the impression that Weatherly and Caron would also not respond per our settlement,” she wrote in her Boston Globe piece. In the article, Weatherly said that his sexually inappropriate comments - including a comment about a rape van, saying that he wanted to have a threesome with Dushku, and that he would put her over his knee and spank her - were jokes, and in one case a poorly-executed Cary Grant reference.ĭushku did not comment for the article because she believed the confidentiality agreement she signed as part of her settlement with the network prohibited her from doing so. The New York Times published an article last week about the $9.5 million settlement the network reached with Dushku, quoting Weatherly (who acted in the network’s most popular series, NCIS, before Bull). ![]() Actress Eliza Dushku, best-known for her roles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, True Lies and Bring It On, published an op-ed in the Boston Globe on Wednesday detailing her account of harassment she faced on the set of the CBS series Bull by her co-star Michael Weatherly, and her firing when she complained.
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