From: vidcapper1@yahoo.co.uk   
      
   On 20/12/2018 22:15, David wrote:   
   > https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/eliza-dushku-hits-back-mic   
   ael-weatherly-cbs-bull-settlement-revealed-not-want-harassed-fir   
   d-210900863.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=1_02   
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   > Eliza Dushku is breaking her silence following last week’s New York   
   > Times report that the actress was paid millions by CBS to settle sexual   
   > harassment claims from her stint on Bull. In an opinion piece for the   
   > Boston Globe, Dushku writes she feels “compelled” to come forward as she   
   > “declined to be interviewed for that piece because I wanted to honor the   
   > terms of my settlement with the network.”   
   >   
   > “The narrative propagated by CBS, actor Michael Weatherly, and   
   > writer-producer Glenn Gordon Caron is deceptive and in no way fits with   
   > how they treated me on the set of the television show Bull and   
   > retaliated against me for simply asking to do my job without relentless   
   > sexual harassment,” Dushku begins. “This is not a ‘he-said/she-said’   
   > case. Weatherly’s behavior was captured on CBS’s own videotape   
   recordings.”   
   >   
   > Dushku was hired to play Weatherly’s love interest on the show in 2017.   
   > She appeared in three episodes with the promise of becoming a series   
   > regular the following season, but was abruptly fired after confronting   
   > Weatherly about sexually explicit comments he made to her on set.   
   >   
   > Weatherly apologized in the Times piece, but he dismissed his earlier   
   > comments to Dushku as jokes: “During the course of taping our show, I   
   > made some jokes mocking some lines in the script. When Eliza told me   
   > that she wasn’t comfortable with my language and attempt at humor, I was   
   > mortified to have offended her and immediately apologized. After   
   > reflecting on this further, I better understand that what I said was   
   > both not funny and not appropriate and I am sorry and regret the pain   
   > this caused Eliza.”   
   >   
   > Dushku slams how Weatherly, who plays Dr. Bull, rationalized his bad   
   > behavior. “I do not want to hear that I have a ‘humor deficit’ or   
   ‘can’t   
   > take a joke,” she writes. “I did not over-react. I took a job and,   
   > because I did not want to be harassed, I was fired.”   
   >   
   > In her piece, Dushku gives a first-hand account of the disparaging   
   > comments allegedly made by Weatherly.   
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   >   
   > Weatherly harassed me from early on. The tapes show his offer to take me   
   > to his “rape van, filled with all sorts of lubricants and long phallic   
   > things.” There was also his constant name-calling; playing provocative   
   > songs (like “Barracuda”) on his iPhone when I approached my set marks;   
   > and his remark about having a threesome. He made the threesome remark to   
   > me about himself and me in a room full of people. Minutes later, a crew   
   > member sidled up next to me and, with a smirk, said in a low voice, “I’m   
   > with Bull. I wanna have a threesome with you too.” For weeks, Weatherly   
   > was recorded making sexual comments, and was recorded mimicking penis   
   > jousting with a male costar, this directly on the heels of the   
   > “threesome” proposal, and another time referring to me repeatedly as   
   > “legs.” He regularly commented on my “ravishing” beauty, following up   
   > with audible groans, oohing and aahing. As the tapes show, he liked to   
   > boast about his sperm and vasectomy reversals (“I want you to know,   
   > Eliza, I have powerful swimmers”). Weatherly had a habit of exaggerated   
   > eye-balling and leering at me; once, he leaned into my body and inhaled,   
   > smelling me in a dramatic swoon. As was caught on tape, after I flubbed   
   > a line, he shouted in my face, “I will take you over my knee and spank   
   > you like a little girl.”   
   >   
   > Dushku makes it clear his “conduct was unwelcome and directed at me.”   
   > The actress recalls confronting Weatherly after weeks of enduring his   
   > harassment.   
   >   
   > “I aimed to be my diplomatic best,” she says of their meeting, which   
   > took place in his trailer. “This was not easy for me, since there were   
   > plenty of other things I would like to have said to him. Framing my   
   > request as a plea for ‘help’ in setting a different tone on the set, I   
   > asked him to ‘be my ally’ and to ‘help ease the sexualized set   
   comments.’”   
   >   
   > She was written off the show almost immediately after their talk. Dushku   
   > continued to film what would unknowingly be her final episodes, but she   
   > says Weatherly retaliated against her on set.   
   >   
   > “Following our conversation and up until the season wrapped weeks later,   
   > he barely spoke to me, making it clear he was icing me out,” she   
   > remembers. “He made every remaining day on the set somehow more awkward   
   > and oppressive.   
   >   
   > “What is hardest to share is the way he made me feel for 10 to 12 hours   
   > per day for weeks,” she notes. “This was classic workplace harassment   
   > that became workplace bullying. I was made to feel dread nearly all the   
   > time I was in his presence. And this dread continues to come up whenever   
   > I think of him and that experience.”   
   >   
   > Dushku continues, “Weatherly sexually harassed and bullied me day-in and   
   > day-out and would have gotten away with it had he not been caught on   
   > tape, and had the CBS lawyers not inadvertently shared the tapes with my   
   > [lawyer.]”   
   >   
   > CBS ultimately paid Dushku $9.5 million to settle, about the equivalent   
   > of what she would have earned if she had stayed on as a cast member for   
   > four seasons.   
   >   
   > “A significant settlement condition was my requirement that CBS   
   > designate an individual trained in sexual harassment compliance to   
   > monitor Weatherly and the show in general,” Dushku reveals. “Another   
   > condition I insisted on was that I be allowed to meet with Steven   
   > Spielberg, whose Amblin Television coproduces Bull, so I could talk with   
   > him about what occurred on his set.”   
   >   
   > The meeting with Spielberg has yet to happen.   
   >   
   > On her end, Dushku agreed to “not speak about what happened.” But, after   
   > seeing CBS and Weatherly make statements last week, the actress wasn’t   
   > afraid to come forward.   
   >   
   > “In the end, I found uneasy solace in the important conditions I imposed   
   > on CBS, and that I would get paid for at least some of my contract. I am   
   > still trying to make sense of how this could happen, especially in these   
   > times. The last thing I want at this point in my life is to be in the   
   > news,” she concludes. “I am recently married and very happily finishing   
   > my college degree at home in Boston. But I do feel it is my duty to   
   > respond honestly and thoroughly to CBS, Michael Weatherly, and Glenn   
   > Gordon Caron’s latest revisionist accounts.”   
   >   
   >         [sounds like Weatherly is just as misogynistic, and snarky and   
   > sarcastic as he was on NCIS]   
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   >   
   > David   
      
   I posted on this subject 6 days ago.   
      
      
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