Brendan Fraser Reappears And Reveals He Also Suffered Sexual Harassment

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Brendan Fraser revealed in an interview to a publication that he suffered sexual harassment in Hollywood.

The actor, always remembered for his role as Rick O'Connell in the film The Mummy (1999), explained that he was allegedly touched inappropriately by Philip Berk, former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), during a lunch held in the Beverly Hills Hotel, in 2003. Fraser's statements were published Thursday by GQ magazine.

In the interview titled, “What ever happen with Brendan Fraser? (What happened to Brendan Fraser?), The actor made the difficult revelation. Fraser described the episode that he allegedly experienced at that lunch, as follows. "His left hand moved, he grabbed my buttock and put one of his fingers on the perineum (taint) and started moving it," the actor explained to GQ.

Fraser indicated that at that time he felt ill. “I felt like a little boy, like I had a ball in his throat. I felt that someone had thrown an invisible painting at me, he alleged.

The actor told the men's magazine that he did not make the complaint at the time because of how bad he felt after suffering the alleged sexual assault. However, Faser said he demanded an apology from Berk, then the head of the HFPA. Fraser thinks he has been blacklisted in Hollywood after the incident. People requested a reaction from Berk, but did not receive an immediate response. However, Berk denied what happened to The New York Times. Inclusively, GQ exposes that Berk alleged that the complaint made by Fraser in "a total fabrication".