Karla Souza Claims She Was Raped By A Director

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

Televisa announced in a statement on Wednesday its rupture of labor relations with director Gustavo Loza, shortly after actress Karla Souza revealed that she was raped by a director, of whom she did not mention the name.

Loza had worked on projects in which Souza participated, such as Los héroes del norte, In the face of public complaints of the sexual abuse of actress Karla Souza, Televisa has decided to immediately break any employment relationship with Mr. Gustavo Loza. Likewise, any ongoing project that involves the participation of Señor Loza will be canceled. Mr. Loza is not an employee of Televisa, but he has collaborated with projects of the company,”reads the statement reported by the Mexican newspaper Publimetro.

For his part, Loza explained on his Twitter account that he dissociated himself from any accusation. This, after Televisa break relations with him. "I withdraw from any accusation against me by @NTelevisa_com and @DeniseMaerker, who today have accused me without foundation regarding the case of the alleged violation denounced by @ KarlaSouza7 which I deeply regret and condemn openly."

In an interview with CNN journalist Carmen Aristegui, Karla said that the rape happened early in her career. The actress, who plays the character of Laurel Castillo in the series How to Get Away with Murder (ABC), indicated that when she went to work at a location, she was accommodated in a hotel where only said director was present. The rest of the cast had been located in another hostelry.

Souza detailed to Aristeguique the alleged assailant was knocking on the door of his room at 2:00 am, allegedly to talk about the scenes that were close to work. However, Souza understood that something was wrong. “This is not appropriate, it is not at all something that should have happened. I in pajamas … He enters the room and does not leave the room. [He spoke] making me feel special…”, he indicated.

In addition, she said that she felt uncomfortable. "There begins to be [a] physical approach, a flirtation where I feel that I do not have the option to reject it … This came to pass several nights and on the night that I decided not to open the door, the next day I was filming the charge … Suddenly, I began to humiliate myself in front of the others. This was her psychological control with me, and at the same time, she was charming… She would send me messages with things that were quite insistent,”she related in the interview.

Souza remembers that his companions told him that they were handling his aggressor well, whom they described as a wolf. However, that harassment and total abuse of his power, as she describes it, lasted almost a month. "I ended up giving in to him kissing me, to touch me in ways that I did not want and in one of those instances he violently assaulted me, and yes, he raped me," revealed Sousa, who explained that he was counting on what had happened. Aristegui indicated that Souza preferred not to give the name of his attacker. However, they were conducting an investigation into the matter.

In an October 2017 interview with Radio Formula, Souza said she had been harassed. She did not mention rape at the time. However, her words were quite revealing. In the interview with Javier Poza, Souza said: "[The women] do not understand the psychology behind being harassed, which is just feeling accused by yourself and feeling that it is your fault." In addition, she added: "It is very difficult to accept that we were abused, harassed, it is the last thing you want to talk about and after years, forget."