Eliza Dushku testifies about ‘near-constant’ sexual harassment on ‘Bull’ set
Eliza Dushku appeared before a home Judiciary panel on Tuesday to testify in regards to the “near-constant” sexual harassment she allegedly endured about group of CBS’ “Bull.”
The 40-year-old actress said in virtual panel hearing, called “Silenced: just how required Arbitration holds subjects of sex assault and Sexual Harassment in the shade,” that she “appreciated” the chance to talk out concerning this important issue as “someone who was simply discharged and silenced once I attempted to treat it.”
She began by discussing that in 2017, she got “aggressively pursued” by CBS for a six-year dedication to bring “a skilled, high-powered attorney designed to counter stability the current male contribute,” that has been played by Michael Weatherly.
“However, in my own earliest month back at my brand-new task I found myself the force of crude, sexualized and lewd spoken assaults,” Dushku alleged. “I endured near-constant intimate harassment from my co-star.”
She put, “This had been beyond such a thing I had skilled in my own 30-year profession.”
Dushku, exactly who decided not to term Weatherly, proceeded to detail some of the harassment she allegedly encountered.
She stated at hearing that the woman co-star usually known their as “legs” and would “smell me personally and leeringly search me top to bottom.”
“Off program, in front of about 100 staff people and shed people, he once asserted that however just take us to their ‘rape’ van and employ lubricant and longer phallic activities on myself and capture me personally over his knee and spank myself like some woman,” Dushku said, including that he additionally shared with her that “his sperm had been strong swimmers.”
