Yahoo Movies Kate Beckinsale says she was "gaslit" in "unsafe situations" on sets
Kate Beckinsale had claimed that she was "gaslit" in "unsafe situations" on film sets over her career.
The Van Helsing, Canary Black, and Underworld actor shared a (now-deleted, covered via The Guardian) video to her Instagram, following the news that Blake Lively has accused her It Ends With Us co-star and director Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment.
Lively has since sued Baldoni, while his lawyer has denied the allegations made against him, calling them "completely false".
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In her video, Beckinsale alleged that she has "47 million stories" of being "assaulted" or similar, and was called "a bitch" when she tried to complain about it, calling it a "machine that goes into effect when a woman complains about something legitimately offensive, upsetting, harmful, whatever, in this industry."
She went to speak about an alleged incident that happened when she was 18 years old, claiming she was "felt up by somebody that I really trusted on a crew.
"Went to the lead actress, who’s known for being a supporter of women, and said this has happened and was told, 'No, it didn't.' I went to another actress, crying, and said I'd just been assaulted by this man and again told, 'No, you haven’t been.'"
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She also alleged that she had been put into "unsafe situations" in two occasions filming fight scenes.
"There's a certain kind of actor who gets kind of a thrill out of legally being able to harm a woman during a fight sequence," she claimed. "And I was harmed, to the point where there were MRIs proving it.
"And actually what happened was I was gaslit and made to feel like I was the problem, blamed and ostracised."
In the caption to her video, in which she detailed further apparent incidents, she called for "both men and women in our industry to be part of stamping this out for good.”
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