Thandie Newton discusses being sexually abused on film set at the age of 16
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standard.co.ukThandie Newton has spoken out about being sexually abused at the age of 16. The actress, 47, told the Sunday Times that she was abused after being “groomed over weeks” while filming Flirting, which was released in 1991. “It happened the night my father flew home,” she told the paper. “I was 16, and a virgin.
I’d been psychologically groomed over weeks. “I didn’t fight him off, I was almost paralysed with fear. It was sexual abuse.” She also recalled a separate incident which occurred during an audition for another film, in which a director asked her to “sit with my legs apart.” “I’d been called back for a second audition,” she said. “The director asked me to sit with my legs apart; the camera was positioned where it could see up my skirt.
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