![]() “They were incessant and demeaning and and directed at me in the middle of what was supposed to be a professional workplace.”ĭushku said that she “feared that if I pushed back or reacted strongly, my job could be at risk, or my professional reputation could be harmed.”Īfter one incident, when she was doing a scene in which she delivered a courtroom monologue, Dushku said that her co-star “shouted out that he and his buddy wanted to have a threesome with me and began mock penis jousting while the camera was still rolling. “These were not lines in the script,” she said. Off 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 phallic things on me and take me over his knee and spank me like a little girl.” She said that another time “he told me that his sperm were powerful swimmers.” She didn’t refer to Weatherly by name in her opening statement, but detailed how he “frequently referred to me as ‘legs.’ He would smell me and leeringly look me up and down. This was beyond anything I had experienced in my 30-year career.” I suffered near constant sexual harassment from my co-star. She said that in her first week on the job, she “found myself the brunt of crude, sexualized and lewd verbal assaults. In 2018, it was revealed that Dushku was paid $9.5 million to settle sexual harassment claims on the set of Bull that concerned Weatherly.Īlthough she was restrained by a non-disclosure agreement as part of the settlement, she did disclose some details of her claims in an op ed in the Boston Globe that year challenging the network’s version of the events, as well as that from Weatherly and writer producer Glenn Gordon Caron.īefore the committee, Dushku went into great detail about her claims of what happened on the set of Bull. #EndForcedArbitration pic.twitter.2023 Premiere Dates For New & Returning Series On Broadcast, Cable & Streaming WATCH: shares her personal story of the sexual harassment she faced at CBS and the secret arbitration process she was forced to enter. “I’ve 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,” Dushku said.ĭushku spoke in front of a House Judiciary Committee hearing titled “Silenced: How Forced Arbitration Keeps Victims of Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment in the Shadow.” CBS did not immediately respond to Variety‘s request for comment. She added that she was silenced by the arbitration clause in her contract. ![]() Another time he told me that his sperm were powerful swimmers.”ĭushku alleged that after speaking to the co-star about toning down his comments, he texted the head of CBS Studios and she was fired the next day. Off 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 phallic things on me and take me over his knee and spank me like a little girl. She didn’t refer to Weatherly by name, but she added that the male co-star “frequently referred to me as ‘legs.’ He would smell me and leeringly look me up and down. “However, in my first week on my new job I found myself the brunt of crude, sexualized and lewd verbal assaults. “I was told that the role 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,” Dushku said. She received a $9.5 million settlement from CBS, the Boston Globe reported in 2018. In 2016, Dushku had a recurring role in Season 1 of “Bull” that was meant to become a regular role, but she alleges that she was fired from the show after accusing star Michael Weatherly of sexual harassment. ![]() ![]() Actor Eliza Dushku shared her experience facing sexual harassment on the set of CBS’ “ Bull” in front of a House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, speaking out about being fired from the show and forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement.
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