Thandie Newton has claimed she didn’t have a relationship with her parents “for a decade” after she went public with her experiences of sexual abuse.
The British actress became one of the faces of the Time’s Up and #MeToo movements after revealing she’d suffered abuse during an audition with a male director when she was just 18 years old. “I’d been called back for a second audition.
The director asked me to sit with my legs apart; the camera was positioned where it could see up my skirt,” she told Britain’s The Times newspaper of the horrific incident. “He asked me to put my leg over the arm of the chair and think about the character I was supposed to be having the dialogue with and how it felt to be made love to by this person.
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