Brendan Fraser Says His 2003 Alleged Groping Incident Was ‘Causing Me Emotional and Personal Distress’

Brendan Fraser is pondering what his supposed involvement in rape meant for him going ahead. In a discussion with Lee Cowan encompassing his new film The Whale for Monday’s episode of CBS Mornings, the 54-year-old entertainer examined his case that previous HFPA President Philip Berk physically attacked him in the late spring of 2003. (Berk, 89, questions the case.)

Asked by Cowan, 57, whether the supposed episode “wrecked everything,” Fraser concurred, “All things considered, indeed, on the grounds that there’s a framework set up that is about power.”

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“What’s more, I had carried on honestly up until that point. What’s more, I felt like, alright, presently, out of nowhere, I’ve been disregarded. Also, it has gone excessively far.

Furthermore, I will never again stand this,” he added. As indicated by The Mummy star, the supposed episode “was causing me close to home trouble; it was causing me individual misery.”

Fraser has guaranteed the attack happened when Berk contacted shake Fraser’s hand on out of the Beverly Slopes Lodging after a lunch meeting the two of them went to there.

“His left hand stretches around, gets my butt cheek, and one of his fingers contacts me in the impurity.

Furthermore, he begins moving it around,” Fraser asserted to GQ in 2018, when he previously approached with the claim. Of uncovering the supposed episode, Fraser told Cowan, “I shouted out in light of the fact that I saw so many of my companions and partners who, around then, were fearlessly arising to talk their reality to control.”

“What’s more, I had a remark, as well,” the Oldie but a goodie entertainer added. Berk didn’t beforehand answer Individuals’ solicitation for input about the supposed episode, however has denied the attack at any point happened to The New York Times.

The Hollywood Unfamiliar Press Affiliation — the philanthropic association that decisions in favor of the Brilliant Globe Grants — ousted long-lasting part Berk back in April 2021, after he sent an email to his kindred individuals calling the People of color Matter development a “bigoted can’t stand development” and scrutinizing BLM fellow benefactor Patrisse Cullors for purchasing a home in Topanga Ravine, California.

Last month, Fraser told GQ in a cover profile for the magazine’s Men of the Year issue that he “won’t partake” in the Brilliant Globes, which are made arrangements for Jan. 10, regardless of whether he gets an acting selection for his much-hummed about presentation in The Whale.

“I have more history with the Hollywood Unfamiliar Press Relationship than I have regard for the Hollywood Unfamiliar Press Affiliation,” he said.

“This is a direct result of the set of experiences that I have with them. What’s more, my mom didn’t raise a faker. You can call me a ton of things, yet not that,” Fraser added.

On the off chance that you or somebody you realize has been physically attacked, if it’s not too much trouble, contact the Public Rape Hotline at 1-800-656-Trust (4673) or go to rainn.org.

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