![]() I remember how afterwards, the taxi driver stared at me in the rear view mirror when Joel Kramer put me on his lap in the backseat and clutched me and grew aroused again and how my eyes never left the driver’s eyes during that long ride over a Miami bridge, back to my hotel and parent. When he was ‘finished’, he suggested, “I think we should be careful…,” he meant. He spoke these words: “You’re not going to sleep on me now sweetie, stop pretending you’re sleeping,” as he rubbed harder and faster against my catatonic body. I remember how he laid me down on the bed, wrapped me with his gigantic writhing body, and rubbed all over me. I remember what I was wearing (my favorite white denim shorts, thankfully, secured enough for me to keep on). I remember vividly how he methodically drew the shades and turned down the lights how he cranked up the air-conditioning to what felt like freezing levels, where exactly he placed me on one of the two hotel room beds, what movie he put on the television (Coneheads) how he disappeared in the bathroom and emerged, naked, bearing nothing but a small hand towel held flimsy at his mid-section. I remember, so clearly 25 years later, how Joel Kramer made me feel special, how he methodically built my and my parents’ trust, for months grooming me exactly how he lured me to his Miami hotel room with a promise to my parent that he would take me for a swim at the stunt crew’s hotel pool and for my first sushi meal thereafter. It has been indescribably exhausting, bottling this up inside me for all of these years. The ever-growing list of sexual abuse and harassment victims who have spoken out with their truths have finally given me the ability to speak out. ![]() I am grateful to the women and men who have gone before me in recent months. No one seemed ready to confront this taboo subject then, nor was I. At the time, I shared what happened to me with my parents, two adult friends and one of my older brothers. When I was 12 years old, while filming “True Lies”, I was sexually molested by Joel Kramer, one of Hollywood’s leading stunt coordinators.Įver since, I have struggled with how and when to disclose this, if ever. The Associated Press, which does not normally identify minors who are victims of sexual abuse, is reporting Dushku’s name because she has gone public with her allegations. True Lies filmmaker James Cameron said he was unaware of Dushku’s experience and lauded her for speaking out. “She is painting me out to be a monster which I am not,” he told US Magazine, adding, “My career is done.”Ī Dushku representative didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment Saturday. Kramer denied the allegations in a Variety interview.
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