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Oscar-winning star Brendan Fraser went through a tough time after he was allegedly se*ually assaulted by Philip Berk, the former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the organisation behind the Golden Globes. The actor claimed that he was groped by Berk in 2003. Fraser shed light on the horrific incident in 2018 during an interview with a leading magazine saying he felt ill and he felt like a kid. Scroll down to read more.
Brendan Fraser, first shot to fame with his The Mummy movies and won the Academy Award in 2023 in the Best Actor category for his movie The Whale. The actor in an interview also claimed that an incident of s*xual harassment led him to withdraw from his high-profile lifestyle.
In an interview with GQ in 2018, Brendan Fraser decided to address his s*xual assault saying, “I felt ill. I felt like a little kid. I felt like there was a ball in my throat. I thought I was going to cry.” The actor further stated, “I felt like someone had thrown invisible paint on me” adding that it “made me retreat. It made me feel reclusive’. Fraser further shared, “I don’t know if this curried disfavor with the group, with the HFPA. But the silence was deafening. I became depressed. I was blaming myself and I was miserable – because I was saying, ‘This is nothing; this guy reached around and he copped a feel.’ That summer wore on – and I can’t remember what I went on to work on next.”
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