Terry Crews has spoken about how he felt his career in Hollywood was done after speaking up about his sexual assault.
Last year, the actor and Willian Morris Endeavour agent Adam Venit agreed to settle a lawsuit in which Crews accused Venit of groping him at a Hollywood party
After initially revealing in a series of tweets in 2017 that he had been groped by a then-unnamed Hollywood boss in front of his wife, he initially kept the incident quiet because he was afraid of the mans power in Hollywood.
However following the uncovering of allegations against Harvey Weinstein and the beginning of the #MeToo movement, he knew he had to speak up.
But that didnt mean he didnt fear for his career and now he has admitted he told his wife his time in showbusiness was all but over by coming out with the allegations.
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You have to understand, when I went home that first day, I told my wife my career was over. We knew it was over. We said, “Its done,” he explained at the Shorty Awards this week.
And you know what my wife told me? She said, “You know what, we were done after football. We were done after everything else you were gonna do. Well find something else to do.” And thats the reality of what this thing is. Im an accidental activist. Because the point is, these things happen, and you look around and you wait for somebody else to do something and you realise its you.
Winning the Phenom award for activism at last nights awards at the Playstation theatre, he said he had no choice but to speak up otherwise he feared the same injustices would happen to women and men if no one was taken to task.
Following journalist Ronan Farrows initial piece with the alleged victims of Weinstein, Terry said: Then I went on social media and I could not believe the men that were dogging these women, that were calling them opportunists, that were calling them gold diggers, that were saying that this is the price you have to pay to be in the business.
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And I knew it had happened to me, and I knew I didnt say anything either. And I had a choice. I remember just thinking. I actually turned off my phone, and I said, you know what, Im not going to write anything. Im just going to keep on going. Im going to get paid, keep going, move on, because you know what, hey man, this stRead More – Source
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