“Oscar winners Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Lawrence have used their speeches at a Hollywood event honouring women to detail experiences of assault and harassment at the hands of directors and producers.
“Witherspoon told the audience at the Elle Women in Hollywood Awards that the recent revelation of decades of sexual misconduct allegations against producer Harvey Weinstein has prompted her own experiences to come back “very vividly”.
“Witherspoon said she had “true disgust at the director who assaulted me when I was 16-years-old and anger at the agents and the producers who made me feel that silence was a condition of my employment”.”
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