TIME Person of the Year 2017: The Silence Breakers
Dec 6, 2017
TIME Person Of The Year 2017: The voices that launched the movement against sexual harassment - The Silence Breakers.
http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2017-silence-breakers/
Stephanie Zacharek, Eliana Dockterman and Haley Sweetland Edwards
Movie stars are supposedly nothing like you and me. They're svelte, glamorous, self-possessed. They wear dresses we can't afford and live in houses we can only dream of. Yet it turns out thatin the most painful and personal waysmovie stars are more like you and me than we ever knew.
In 1997, just before Ashley Judd's career took off, she was invited to a meeting with Harvey Weinstein, head of the starmaking studio Miramax, at a Beverly Hills hotel. Astounded and offended by Weinstein's attempt to coerce her into bed, Judd managed to escape. But instead of keeping quiet about the kind of encounter that could easily shame a woman into silence, she began spreading the word.
"I started talking about Harvey the minute that it happened," Judd says in an interview with TIME. "Literally, I exited that hotel room at the Peninsula Hotel in 1997 and came straight downstairs to the lobby, where my dad was waiting for me, because he happened to be in Los Angeles from Kentucky, visiting me on the set. And he could tell by my faceto use his wordsthat something devastating had happened to me. I told him. I told everyone."
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