Kate Beckinsale has revealed she was sexually abused by a crew member as a teenager.
The 51-year-old actress shared a lengthy video on Instagram on Monday describing her harrowing experience in Hollywood. She said she was forced to do a photo shoot while bleeding after a miscarriage and that an actor was “rough to her” on a “toxic” set. .
During the clip, Kate explained that she was inspired to speak out because of Blake Lively’s lawsuit, emphasizing that the behavior Blake claims she experienced from co-star Justin Baldoni has “been going on forever.”
Kate shared one of her own stories: “I was actually abandoned at the age of 18 by someone I really trusted on a crew.
‘I went to the leading lady who is known as an advocate for women and said this happened and was told ‘no, it didn’t’.
‘I went to another actress crying and said, “I’ve just been attacked by this man” – again, “No, I haven’t.” So this has been going on forever.”
Kate Beckinsale revealed she was sexually assaulted on set and branded ‘that bastard’ as she detailed the abuse she experienced in Hollywood in an Instagram video on Monday
During the clip, Kate explained that she was inspired to speak out because of Blake Lively’s lawsuit, emphasizing that the behavior Blake claims she experienced has been “going on forever.”
Kate continued: ‘What really annoys me is that I see a lot of men walking around saying, ‘A while ago things were so different, the climate is so different and it’s so much better.’
‘No, it isn’t. And if you’re a woman and you have a legitimate complaint – someone touches my breasts and calls me ac*** or calls me ab***h – then you suck.”
Kate also revealed she was called derogatory when she complained about having to wait six hours for her ‘drunk co-star’ to show up for work.
The Underworld star, who shares daughter Lily, 25, with her ex-actor Michael Sheen, claimed: ‘I was in a movie where towards the end of it I was spoken to on walkie-talkies and my face was referred to as ‘that c* **’ because I said: ‘I find it very difficult – my co-star is drunk every day.
“He’s clearly going through something and I have every sympathy for that, but I also, like the entire crew, wait six hours a day for him to learn his lines, and that means I won’t see my daughter. In the evening for the whole movie.”
She told her followers that she was “banned” for speaking out about the incident that took place during the shooting of Pearl Harbor.
Some social media users jumped to the comments section to speculate that Kate could have been talking about Ben Affleck – one of the leading stars of Michael Bay’s war drama.
However, Kate quickly shut down the claims by responding to a fan who wrote: “Affleck maybe the drunk?”
She responded, “Ben Affleck protected me on an extremely toxic film set and couldn’t have behaved more respectably.”
“I’m not going to go into detail about who it was or wasn’t because, honestly, the most problematic part hasn’t been the actors. Reporting a problem or abuse has led to a harsher punishment than you could ever imagine.”
Kate told one of her own stories: ‘I was actually abandoned at the age of 18 by someone I really trusted on a crew’ (pictured, 17 years old)
She continued: ‘That’s the thing – everyone says, why didn’t you tell it properly about the entirety of what we have.’
“We told our agents or managers and the head of the studio and usually thirty to a hundred people witnessed it.”
Kate went on to say: ‘In one incident the actor was so rough with me that he destroyed part of my costume and tore my wig in half, not to mention covering me in bruises, punching me and scaring the hell out of me made.’
“Everyone was incredibly concerned,” Beckinsale added. “I shut down the set for several hours and was very worried and upset.”
“As soon as I called, the head of the studio was actually urged by my mother to do that because my instincts weren’t working too well.”
The actress, when contacted and ‘complained’ about the incident, said: ‘I was punished, ostracized and couldn’t have asked for more. I hadn’t said anything that was fair or wrong about the whole reason I made this video in the first episode. place.’
Other Instagram followers began speculating that Colin Farrell may have been the mystery actor she mentioned in the feature-length film.
Kate and Colin had worked together on the 2012 action film Total Recall, a remake of the 1990 film of the same name.
One fan said: ‘It sounds like you’re talking about Colin Farrell,’ and Kate replied: ‘I’m emphatically not.’
Alongside the lengthy video, Kate emphasized in her caption: ‘Everyone in ANY industry should be taken seriously and not punished if something serious happens to them at work.
‘And the difference, I think, in our industry is that it becomes something that takes place in the public sphere, and that can be very, very difficult to accept, and because it is so public and so globally public, and becomes very quickly clickbait, it can also destroy someone’s livelihood, mental health and reputation and that can be very difficult to recover from…
“I’m not trying to say ‘oh poor actresses, we’re all having such a hard time’, but I think this is a problem that affects every industry, it’s just a little more visible in ours.”
Kate, 51, also came to Ben Affleck’s defense after opening up about a mystery co-star who had been ‘rough to her’ on set in the past
However, Kate quickly shut down the claims by responding to a fan who wrote: “Affleck maybe the drunk?” (pictured together at Pearl Harbor)
She replied: ‘Ben Affleck protected me on an extremely toxic movie set and couldn’t have behaved more respectably’
Other Instagram followers began speculating that her Total Recall co-star Colin Farrell may have been the mystery actor (pictured together in Berlin in 2012)
One fan said: “It sounds like you’re talking about Colin Farrell,” and Kate replied: “I’m emphatically not.”
Kate continued, “And I don’t want our younger generation of actresses to have to deal with the same things that we all do and did, but they have it worse because of social media and how that can be weaponized to a literal nuclear level, designed to remove .
“And it is very, very, very easy to stir up hatred against actresses, as evidenced by the transcripts of disgusting conversations between the publicists and the crisis team involved in this case.
‘Complaining about abuse should not lead to further abuse, especially in the workplace where there should be inviolable protections, and it should not be expected of women who have been harmed, offended, hurt, embarrassed or otherwise abused ( usually with at least at least 100 witnesses) to have to be ‘one of the guys’ and take it on the chin or risk retaliation for being abused in the first place.
“I don’t want anyone, man or woman, who has a legitimate complaint to have it weaponized against them, in any industry, and I mention this in conjunction with Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni because our industry is making things more visible by the press and public become purposefully involved, leading them to an opinion that they do not realize is intentional.
“There are far too many victims of this, many of whom I know personally, and it really is up to both men and women in our industry to be part of eradicating this for good. And yes, I’m covered in cat hair.’
Last week, Blake, 37, filed a legal complaint against Justin, 40, alleging that he sexually harassed her on the set of their film before orchestrating a smear campaign against her with his publicists after she complained about his alleged behavior.
In Blake’s legal complaint — which typically predates a formal lawsuit — she accused Justin of sexually harassing her in multiple ways during the film’s production.
Blake said in the legal complaint that Justin barged into her trailer while she was breastfeeding her child; talked about his past addiction to adult films; talked about past sexual experiences with non-consensual implications; and asked her about details of her ‘intimate life’.
Blake, 37, has filed a legal complaint against Justin Baldoni, 40, claiming he sexually harassed her on the set of their film before orchestrating a smear campaign against her (depicted in their film, It Ends With Us
Blake’s legal team said in the complaint that Justin “routinely degraded (her) by finding ways to criticize her body and weight.”
In response to Blake’s exposure of the alleged behavior, the actress claims Justin hired a PR crisis team to engage in a “layered” plan to “destroy” her reputation after she and Ryan Reynolds, 48 , had complained about the ‘repeated sexual acts’. harassment and other disturbing behavior” on set.
“I hope my legal action helps pull back the curtain on these sinister retaliatory tactics to harm people who speak out about wrongdoing and protect others who may be targeted,” Blake told The New York Times.
Justin has denied all claims against him in Blake’s legal file.