Molly Ringwald is the latest actress to come forward with claims that she was sexually assaulted.
In The Breakfast Club star's case, she says that it happened when she was 14 and the perpetrator was a director that she did not name.
Writing in The New Yorker about the Harvey Weinstein scandal, she noted that "We all seem to have a Harvey story, “each one a little different but with essentially the same nauseating pattern and theme. Women were bullied, cajoled, manipulated, and worse, and then punished. While my own Harvey story may be different, I have had plenty of Harveys of my own over the years, enough to feel a sickening shock of recognition."
She goes on to say that at 13, a “fifty-year-old crew member told me that he would teach me to dance, and then proceeded to push against me with an erection”, while at 14, a "married film director stuck his tongue in my mouth on set."
She also shared her experience of an audition in her 20s, when she was asked by a director "in a somewhat rhetorical manner, to let the lead actor put a dog collar around my neck."
“I never talked about these things publicly because, as a woman, it has always felt like I may as well have been talking about the weather. Stories like these have never been taken seriously. Women are shamed, told they are uptight, nasty, bitter, can’t take a joke, are too sensitive. And the men? Well, if they’re lucky, they might get elected President.”
Read Ringwald's full piece here.
