Molly Ringwald wrote in an op-ed for The New Yorker on Tuesday, October 17, that she was sexually assaulted by a director when she was just 14.
Dolly Parton, Charlize Theron and More Speak Out Against Harvey Weinstein In a piece titled “All the Other Harvey Weinsteins,” the Pretty in Pink star, 49, detailed her own experiences in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein sex scandal. “I have had plenty of Harveys of my own over the years, enough to feel a sickening shock of recognition,” the former child star admitted. While her own experience with the disgraced former studio boss doesn’t involve being jumped on by the producer in his hotel room — as so many other stars have detailed since The New York Times published a damning expose on October 5 alleging three decades of sexual harassment and assault — she writes about a “tense, awkward moment” with Weinstein, 65, while shooting Strike It Rich in 1990. “Thankfully, I wasn’t cajoled into a taxi, nor did I have to turn down giving or getting a massage,” she writes. “I was lucky.” The former teen star goes on to detail her experiences growing up on sets, where she was often made to feel “demeaned or exploited.”
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