and said: “See guys, this is how you do it”.’ĬNN reporter Chloe Melas, who wrote the expose, claims Freeman spoke inappropriately to her when she was six months pregnant in 2017 by saying she was 'ripe'Ī female manager at Revelations said Freeman would sometimes ‘come over to my desk to say hi and he’d just stand there and stare at me. ‘I said timidly: “I love it” in a sarcastic way, hoping to make light of the situation because I was so confused.
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One of them said she met him for the first time on the set of Through The Wormhole, a science documentary series that he narrated.įreeman was surrounded by a group of men, but looked her ‘up and down’ before asking: ‘How do you feel about sexual harassment?’ She was stunned. Many of the victims worked for Freeman’s own production company, Revelations Entertainment. ‘Then we went to take a group photo and he pressed himself up against me.’ ‘He was looking at my breasts and I told him: “My eyes are up here,” ’ she said. Freeman asked some women to give him a twirl, said witnesses.Ī third woman who worked on a recent film of Freeman’s recalled an incident at the film’s wrap party. not to wear any top that would show our breasts, not to wear anything that would show our bottoms, meaning not wearing clothes that fitted,’ she said. She was then in her early 20s and Freeman was 78. One woman, who worked as a production assistant on the set of the comedy Going In Style in the summer of 2015, said she experienced months of harassment. Another eight people said they witnessed his inappropriate treatment of others.įor a Tinseltown elder statesman, whose name has become almost a byword for principled respectability - he has been cast as Nelson Mandela and even as God - the allegations are devastating. Yet Freeman’s questionable behaviour appears little in doubt on this occasion, for he offered an apology when the accusations were barely out of the newsreader’s mouth.Įight women have told the broadcaster CNN that Freeman sexually harassed them or behaved inappropriately on film sets, at his production company and even at press events. The actor, who next week turns 81, is probably best known for his stirring performance as an ageing jailbird in The Shawshank Redemption, one of the most moving films about the injustice done to men wrongly kept behind bars. The new accusations come on top of long-standing claims that he entered into a very questionable relationship with his step-granddaughter E’Dena Hines, with allegations that they became lovers when he was 62 and she was just 17. He has one of the most recognisable and treasured voices in showbusiness, his authoritative but soothing tones chosen to provide the voiceover on everything from announcements on the Vancouver public transport system to the robot butler in the home of Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg.īut there’s not quite so much reverence accorded to Morgan Freeman now he has become the latest Hollywood star to be named as a sexual predator. Morgan Freeman, pictured in January this year, has become the latest Hollywood star to be named as a sexual predator
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