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Brendan Fraser will not attend Golden Globes after alleging he was groped by ex-HFPA president

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Brendan Fraser has announced he will not attend next year's Golden Globes, despite being tipped for award season glory for his comeback movie The Whale.He alleged four years ago that his career 'withered on a vine' after he was groped in 2003 by Philip Berk, a former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), which is the organization behind the Golden Globes.Fraser, 53, has claimed he brought the matter to the HFPA at the time, prompting an internal investigation that dismissed Berk's alleged sexual misconduct as 'a joke.'Berk, 89, who was ejected from the HFPA last year after emailing members an article calling Black Lives Matter a 'racist hate group,' has disputed Fraser's account.

Now in a new interview with GQ, Fraser declared he 'will not participate' in the Golden Globes in January. 'I have more history with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association than I have respect for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.' Standing firm: Brendan Fraser (pictured left last month) will not attend next year's Golden Globes after his groping allegation against ex-HFPA president Philip Berk (pictured right 2006)He attributed his decision to 'the history that I have with them.

And my mother didn't raise a hypocrite. You can call me a lot of things, but not that.' Fraser added that when he took his allegation to the HFPA: 'I knew they would close ranks.

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