1/22/2024 0 Comments Eliza dushku joel kramerI remember how afterwards, the taxi driver stared at me in the rear view mirror when Joel Kramer put me on his lap in the backseat and clutched me and grew aroused again and how my eyes never left the driver's eyes during that long ride over a Miami bridge, back to my hotel and parent. When he was 'finished', he suggested, "I think we should be careful.," he meant. He spoke these words: "You're not going to sleep on me now sweetie, stop pretending you're sleeping," as he rubbed harder and faster against my catatonic body. I remember how he laid me down on the bed, wrapped me with his gigantic writhing body, and rubbed all over me. I remember what I was wearing (my favorite white denim shorts, thankfully, secured enough for me to keep on). I remember vividly how he methodically drew the shades and turned down the lights how he cranked up the air-conditioning to what felt like freezing levels, where exactly he placed me on one of the two hotel room beds, what movie he put on the television (Coneheads) how he disappeared in the bathroom and emerged, naked, bearing nothing but a small hand towel held flimsy at his mid-section. I remember, so clearly 25 years later, how Joel Kramer made me feel special, how he methodically built my and my parents' trust, for months grooming me exactly how he lured me to his Miami hotel room with a promise to my parent that he would take me for a swim at the stunt crew's hotel pool and for my first sushi meal thereafter. It has been indescribably exhausting, bottling this up inside me for all of these years. The ever-growing list of sexual abuse and harassment victims who have spoken out with their truths have finally given me the ability to speak out. I am grateful to the women and men who have gone before me in recent months. No one seemed ready to confront this taboo subject then, nor was I. At the time, I shared what happened to me with my parents, two adult friends and one of my older brothers. When I was 12 years old, while filming "True Lies", I was sexually molested by Joel Kramer, one of Hollywood's leading stunt coordinators.Įver since, I have struggled with how and when to disclose this, if ever. Most recently, Kramer has worked as the stunt coordinator on films like Blade Runner 2049, The Conjuring 2, and the television series Westworld and Star Trek: Discovery.Ĭlick inside to read the full open letter. She also alleges that after an adult friend of hers confronted him, that she was injured on a stunt he oversaw the next day.Įliza says that she gained the conviction to stand up to her abusers from all the fans who tell her that her characters give them strength as well. It has been indescribably exhausting, bottling this up inside me for all of these years," she continued.Įliza went on to describe in detail what happened when Kramer, who was 36 at the time, lured her to his hotel room and rubbed all over her with his naked body. "I am grateful to the women and men who have gone before me in recent months. No one seemed ready to confront this taboo subject then, nor was I." "Ever since, I have struggled with how and when to disclose this, if ever. "When I was 12 years old, while filming True Lies, I was sexually molested by Joel Kramer, one of Hollywood's leading stunt coordinators," Eliza began her open letter. The actress, now 37, played the role of Arnold Schwarzenegger's daughter in the 1994 movie. Eliza Dushku is speaking out in an open letter with allegations of being sexually assaulted by True Lies stunt coordinator Joel Kramer when she was just 12-years-old.
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