Sixteen people have come forward with accusations of sexual harassment against Morgan Freeman. Eight of them have said they were victims of what some called harassment and others said that Freeman demonstrated inappropriate behavior in front of them.
One report came from a young production assistant who had worked on Freeman’s film Going in Style, which co-starred Michael Caine and Alan Arkin, in 2015. She said that Freeman would rest his hand on her lower back or rub her lower back and in one case, "kept trying to lift up my skirt and asking if I was wearing underwear."
A woman who was a senior member of the production staff of the movie Now You See Me in 2012 told CNN that Freeman sexually harassed her and her female assistant on numerous occasions by making comments about their bodies.
"He did comment on our bodies... We knew that if he was coming by ... not to wear any top that would show our breasts, not to wear anything that would show our bottoms, meaning not wearing clothes that [were] fitted," she said.
Seven people reported witnessing inappropriate behaviour and harassment at Freeman's production company Revelations Entertainment. Four people who worked in production capacities on movie sets with Freeman over the last ten years described him as repeatedly behaving in ways that made women feel uncomfortable at work.
The allegations state that Freeman subjected people to unwanted touching and made public comments about women's clothing or bodies to the point that several of the women changed how they dressed around him.
Three entertainment reporters have said that Freeman made inappropriate remarks to them during press junkets.
According to CNN, they reached out to dozens more people who worked for or with Freeman with some praising him, saying they never witnessed any questionable behaviour.
Neither Freeman nor his spokesperson has commented on the accusations.
You can read the report in full on CNN.
