{"id":1029897,"date":"2021-11-18T23:28:43","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T04:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1029897"},"modified":"2021-11-18T23:28:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T04:28:47","slug":"actress-eliza-dushku-testifies-to-congress-cbs-fired-and-silenced-me-after-confronting-sexual-harasser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/actress-eliza-dushku-testifies-to-congress-cbs-fired-and-silenced-me-after-confronting-sexual-harasser\/","title":{"rendered":"Actress Eliza Dushku Testifies to Congress: CBS Fired and Silenced Me After Confronting Sexual Harasser"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Factress-eliza-dushku-testifies-to-congress-cbs-fired-and-silenced-me-after-confronting-sexual-harasser%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1029897&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Actress Eliza Dushku told the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday that she faced sexual harassment on the set of CBS\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Bull<\/em>&nbsp;and was&nbsp;fired from the show and forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement after calling it out.<\/p>\n<p>Dushku said that when she became a co-lead in&nbsp;<em>Bull<\/em>, she was told \u201cthat the role&nbsp;would be a six-year commitment to play a smart, strong leading lady, a confident high-powered lawyer meant to counterbalance the existing male lead, and that the role had been written specifically with me in mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHowever, in my first week on my new job I found myself the brunt of crude, sexualized, and lewd verbal assaults,\u201d the actress added. \u201cI suffered near constant sexual harassment from my co-star. This was beyond anything I had experienced in my 30-year career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Watch Below:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.3385214007782\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATCH: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elizadushku?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ElizaDushku<\/a> shares her personal story of the sexual harassment she faced at CBS and the secret arbitration process she was forced to enter. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EndForcedArbitration?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EndForcedArbitration<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZhgoLrYVnX\">pic.twitter.com\/ZhgoLrYVnX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 House Judiciary Dems (@HouseJudiciary) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HouseJudiciary\/status\/1460645844449955840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>While&nbsp;Dushku did not outright name the co-star who she says sexually harassed her, she went on to say that he \u201cwas also one of the show\u2019s producers,\u201d which suggests she is talking about <em>Bull<\/em> star Michael Weatherly.<\/p>\n<p>He \u201cwould frequently refer to me as \u2018legs,\u2019 he would smell me, and leeringly look me up and down,\u201d the actress continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOff script, in front of about 100 crew members and cast members, he once said that he would take me to his rape van and use lube and long&nbsp;phallic things on me, and take me over his knee and spank me like a little girl,\u201d she added.&nbsp;\u201cAnother time he told me that his sperm were powerful swimmers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch her full testimony:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Forced Arbitration Keeps Victims of Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment in the Shadows\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JC5y1GbfUVk?start=796&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Dushku claimed that her co-star\u2019s behavior on set, in front of everyone, \u201cset the tone\u201d in the workplace, and made other crew members feel comfortable enough to start making similar sexualized comments to her.<\/p>\n<p>The actress described an incident in between scenes, in which \u201ca random male&nbsp;crew member\u201d approached her while she was on her coffee break, and whispered, \u201cI\u2019m with Bull, I want to have a threesome with you too, Eliza.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>In the show,&nbsp;Weatherly plays a character named&nbsp;Jason Bull.<\/p>\n<p>Dushku alleged that after speaking to her co-star and asking him to \u201ctone down\u201d his comments, he texted the&nbsp;head of CBS Studios, and she was fired the following day. The actress added that she was then silenced by the arbitration clause in her contract.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18816994\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/eliza-dushku-michael-weatherly-bull.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18816994\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/eliza-dushku-michael-weatherly-bull.jpg\" alt width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Eliza Dushku and Michael Weatherly in a scene from \u201cBull.\u201d (CBS)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve worked as an actress since I was a child and signed countless contracts negotiated on my behalf, but never understood that there were mandatory arbitration clauses that would be used to keep what had happened to me a secret, and would protect CBS and the sexual harassment perpetrator, who had blatantly retaliated against me for trying the stop the harassment in my workplace,\u201d Dushku said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI was shocked to learn that I had signed away my rights to a public forum before taking a job,\u201d she added. \u201cWho would ever think up such a clause? Who were these clauses meant to favor and protect? It suddenly became clear: not me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dushku went on to say that \u201cfor the next year I found myself pitted against one of the most powerful media corporations in the world, CBS, with its unlimited resources, which was controlled by the men who used the&nbsp;arbitration clause to protect themselves, their profitable show, and to silence me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood is well-known for its problems involving sexual and workplace harassment.<\/p>\n<p>The accusations waged against&nbsp;Dushku\u2019s co-star come after several other high-profile scandals involving alleged abuse in Hollywood, including producers Harvey Weinstein and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/04\/21\/hollywood-power-producer-scott-rudin-and-hollywood-studio-a24-sever-ties-amid-abuse-allegations\/\">Scott Rudin<\/a>, director&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/05\/10\/actress-gal-gadot-says-director-joss-whedon-threatened-her-career-on-justice-league-set\/\">Joss Whedon<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2019\/06\/13\/bryan-singer-to-pay-150000-over-rape-allegation\/\">Bryan Singer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>You can follow Alana&nbsp;Mastrangelo on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ARmastrangelo\">Facebook<\/a> and Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARmastrangelo\">@ARmastrangelo<\/a>, and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanamastrangelo\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress Eliza Dushku told the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday that she faced sexual harassment on the set of CBS\u2019s\u00a0Bull\u00a0and was\u00a0fired from the show and forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}