THE LOS ANGELES TIMES HAS PUBLISHED A PIECE INDICATING
THAT SIX WOMEN HAVE SPOKEN TO THE REPORTERS INCLUDING AMY
KAUFMAN AND
DANIELLE MILLER IMPLICATING BRETT RATNER IN SEXUAL
HARASSMENT OR
MISCONDUCT CASES.
THESE ARE WOMEN WHO HAD BEEN SILENT
ABOUT WHAT THEY HAD GONE THROUGH PREVIOUSLY AND DECIDED
TO COME FORWARD FOLLOWING THIS DOMINO EFFECT THAT THE
ALLEGATIONS AGAINST HARVEY WEINSTEIN HAVE HAD.
THERE ARE
A NUMBER OF WOMEN, I'M GOING TO DO MY BEST TO DETAIL ALL OF
THEM,
BUT FIRST I WANT TO START WITH OLIVIA MUNN BECAUSE SHE HAD
WRITTEN SOMETHING ABOUT RATNER IN HER BOOK BACK IN 2010,
ALTHOUGH SHE DID NOT NAME HIM AND THE ALLEGATIONS THAT SHE IS
NOW DETAILING OUR HORRENDOUS.
HERE IS WHAT SHE HAD TO SAY
ABOUT IT.
OKAY, I DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT GRAPHICS.
SHE HAD
ALLEGED THAT BACK WHEN SHE HAD FIRST MOVED TO LOS ANGELES TO
PURSUE ACTING, SHE WAS WORKING ON SET FOR A MOVIE THAT
RATNER WAS IN CHARGE OF.
HE WAS A FILMMAKER FOR THAT MOVIE.
I HAVE THE EXACT QUOTES HERE FROM THE LOS ANGELES TIMES WHICH
DID A GREAT JOB REPORTING ON
THE STORY.
NOW LET ME GO TO RATNER'S QUOTES ABOUT THAT, WHICH WERE
ALL LIES AND WE WILL DETAIL THAT
IN A SECOND.
HE SAID:
HE WAS QUOTED AS SAYING ON HOWARD STERN SHOW:
BACK IN 2010, WE ACTUALLY COVERED THE STORY AND IT WAS
BECAUSE RATNER HAD USED A GAY SLUR AND WHEN HE HAD USED THAT
GAY SLUR AND GOT CRITICISM FOR IT, OLIVIA MUNN'S BOOK ALSO CAME
UP AND ALL OF THE REPORTING ABOUT IT MADE IT SEEM AS THOUGH
THEY HAD SOME SORT OF CONSENSUAL, SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP
WITH ONE ANOTHER AND THAT OLIVIA MUNN WENT ON TO SAY DISPARAGING
THINGS ABOUT HIM IN THE BOOK.
SHE MADE COMMENTS ABOUT HIS
PENIS SIZE AND WE TALKED ABOUT THAT AND AGAIN, FOR THOSE OF YOU
WHO MIGHT'VE MISSED THAT STORY BECAUSE IT WAS SEVEN YEARS AGO,
WE WERE UNDER THE IMPRESSION, BECAUSE IT WAS REPORTED OVER AND
OVER AGAIN, THAT THEY HAD A CONSENSUAL SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY SAID THAT AND THEN LATER RETRACTED IT
AFTER RATNER MADE IT CLEAR THAT HE LIED ABOUT HAVING SEX WITH
HER.
THEY DID APOLOGIZE FOR IT.
OKAY, SO BASED ON THAT FALSE
REPORTING, ERRONEOUS REPORTING, WE COMMENTED ON IT AND I
UNFORTUNATELY CALLED OLIVIA MUNN CLASSLESS BECAUSE I WAS
UNDER THE ASSUMPTION THAT SHE JUST SAID DISPARAGING THINGS
ABOUT HIM AFTER HAVING CONSENSUAL SEX.
THEY NEVER HAD
SEX, HE HAD HARASSED HER.
I DID NOT KNOW THAT.
I AM NOT GIVING
MYSELF ANY EXCUSES AT ALL UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES AND I
FEEL HORRIBLE.
OUR COMMENTARY WAS BASED ON BAD REPORTING AND I SHOULD'VE
KNOWN BETTER.
FIRST OF ALL, THE MOST IMPORTANT THING HERE IS THAT
OLIVIA MUNN WAS COMPLETELY SMEARED AND IT IS HORRIBLE.
THE
WAY THAT IT WENT DOWN AS EXPLAINED AS, FIRST BRETT RATNER
LIED ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED AND SHE HAD THE CLASS TO NOT NAME
HIM
IN THE BOOK EVEN THOUGH HE HAD DONE SOMETHING TERRIBLE TO HER
AND MORE THE DETAILS OF THE STORY NOW THAT IT HAS FULLY COME
OUT IS THAT SHE WAS NEW TO HOLLYWOOD, THEY TOLD HER THAT HE
WASN'T GOING TO BE IN THE TRAILER.
THEY WERE LIKE, CAN YOU
DELIVER THIS FOOD TO THE TRAILER.
SHE GOES IN THINKING
IT'S EMPTY, HE COMES OUT HOLDING SHRIMP COCKTAIL, NAKED,
MASTURBATING AND FINISHES THERE.
SHE IS LIKE, WHAT IS GOING ON?
SHE SCREAMS AND RUNS OUT.
AFTERWARD HE LIES AND
SAYS, I BANGED HER.
WHEN WE DID THE STORY SEVEN YEARS AGO, RATNER HAD NOT
ADMITTED THAT HE HAD LIED AND THERE WAS INCORRECT
REPORTING THAT SHE HAD SAID THAT SHE DID HAVE SEX WITH HIM
WHICH IS TOTALLY FALSE.
NOT JUST SEX, THAT THEY WERE DATING.
BASED ON THAT INCORRECT FACT PATTERN, BY THE WAY, IF YOU
DATED THE GUY AND NOW YOU ARE CALLING OUT HIS SIZE, ETC., THAT
IS WRONG BUT WE HAD THE WRONG FACTS.
NOW THAT WE SEE THE FULL
FACTS HERE AND LIKE I SAID, LA TIMES, WONDERFUL PIECE OF
REPORTING NOT JUST FROM OLIVIA MUNN WHO HAS THREE DIFFERENT
PEOPLE CORROBORATING HER STORY FROM AT THE TIME, NOT NOW AND
FIVE OTHER WOMEN ALSO ARE CORROBORATING WITNESSES AT THE
TIME, NOT NOW, NOW WE SEE THAT IN FACT IT WAS BRETT RATNER WHO
WAS LYING ALL THROUGHOUT AND HAD DONE ALL OF THESE TERRIBLE
THINGS AND OLIVIA MUNN WAS THE ONE WHO WAS THE VICTIM
UNDOUBTEDLY AND HAD TO SUFFER THROUGH THIS AND THEN TO DEAL
WITH RATNER SAYING ALL OF THESE THINGS ALL THESE YEARS.
I KNOW
THAT THE M.O.
FOR THESE TYPES OF PEOPLE, THESE TYPES OF PREDATORY
INDIVIDUALS IS TO SMEAR THE PERSON THAT THEY VICTIMIZED AND
EVEN THOUGH IT WAS FALSE REPORTING, I FEEL TERRIBLE THAT
I FELL FOR IT AND I JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR ABOUT THAT BECAUSE I
FEEL LIKE I SHOULD'VE BEEN MORE SKEPTICAL FIRST OF ALL OF
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY AND I SHOULD'VE DONE A BETTER JOB IN
COVERING THE STORY.
I JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR ABOUT THAT.
NOW
LET'S MOVE ON TO OTHER WOMEN IN THE ACCUSATIONS THAT THEY HAVE
MADE AGAINST BRETT RATNER.
ONE OF THEM IS A MODEL NAMED NATASHA
HENSRIDGE.
SHE SAYS THAT HE
PREVENTED HER FROM LEAVING HIS
APARTMENT AFTER WATCHING A MOVIE AND HER ACCUSATIONS ARE SO
DISTURBING.
SHE CLAIMS THAT HE HAD FORCED HER TO PERFORM ORAL SEX ON HIM.
I WANT TO TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE COURAGE OF THESE
WOMEN BECAUSE UNFORTUNATELY, STILL IN TODAY'S SOCIETY THERE
IS GREAT SHAME AND OFTENTIMES EMBARRASSMENT AND EVEN IF IT'S A
SITUATION YOU CANNOT CONTROL AND IT TAKES SO MUCH COURAGE TO COME
OUT AND SAY THIS HAPPENED AND I WAS AN UNWILLING PARTICIPANT IN
THIS AND FOR HER TO COME OUT AND SAY, IT HAPPENED AND I AM NOT
GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE.
FOR OLIVIA MUNN TO SAY IN THE
BEGINNING, SHE WAS ACTUALLY TRYING TO HIDE HIS IDENTITY.
SHE WAS DOING THE RIGHT THING.
NOW SAYING ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
THERE IS ANOTHER INCIDENT YEARS LATER, OLIVIA MUNN RUNS
INTO RATNER AT A PARTY AND HE IS LIKE, WHY DO YOU HATE ME?
I WONDER WHY, I CANNOT QUITE TELL THAT SHE SAYS I WOULD SAY
DISLIKE, AGAIN BEING SUPER NICE CONSIDERING THE SITUATION.
THEN HE SAYS, I AM SO NICE TO YOU.
I BOUGHT 10 MAGAZINES WITH
YOUR PICTURE ON IT AND MASTURBATED TO IT.
HE TALKED ABOUT
EJACULATING ON THE COVERS OF THE MAGAZINES ETC.
BY THE WAY,
COOPERATING PEOPLE FROM THE TIME SAY HE SAID THAT.
SO OLIVIA
MUNN VERY RIGHTFULLY SO, COMING OUT AND SAYING NO, I'M NOT GOING
TO TAKE IT ANYMORE.
WE ALL SHOULDN'T.
I LOVE THE STRENGTH
AND COURAGE OF THESE WOMEN SO THERE'S MANY OTHERS HERE AND IT
IS ABOUT TIME THAT EVERYBODY FOUGHT BACK AND I AGREE WITH
ANNA, I FEEL TERRIBLE THAT IN THE BEGINNING THE STORY WAS
INCORRECTLY REPORTED AND WE TOOK THE WRONG FACTS.
AND COMMENTED AND REACTED TO IT.
THE WORST PART IS I KNOW
FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE LIED ABOUT THE
MEDIA AND THEN HAVE PEOPLE PILE ON BASED ON SOMETHING THAT IS
NOT TRUE AT ALL IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM AND TO KNOW THAT I
PLAYED A ROLE SIMILAR TO THAT IN ANY WAY MAKES ME FEEL HORRIBLE.
I WOULD NEVER MAKE EXCUSES FOR ANY TYPE OF SEXUAL PREDATOR.
I
FEEL TERRIBLE IF SHE EVER SAW THAT VIDEO OR THINGS THAT WE
HAVE THAT TYPE OF MINDSET BECAUSE WE DO NOT.
ANYWAY.
THIS IS A VERY HUMBLING EXPERIENCE FOR ME PERSONALLY AND
IT MAKES YOU REALIZE YOU HAVE
TO DO BETTER.
LET'S MOVE ON TO
OTHER WOMEN WHO HAVE MADE ACCUSATIONS.
ANOTHER ACTRESS BY
THE NAME OF NEWMAN SAYS:
SO HE WAS SO LOUD THE OTHER PEOPLE ON THE PLANE ALLEGEDLY
HEARD WHAT HE WAS SAYING AND SHE WAS INCREDIBLY UNCOMFORTABLE AND
OBVIOUSLY, THEY ARE ON A PLANE AND SHE CANNOT GET AWAY FROM HIM
AND HE TOOK COMPLETE ADVANTAGE OF THAT OPPORTUNITY.
LOOK ON THE THERE ARE ACTS THAT
ARE DESPICABLE AND THERE ARE
ACTS THAT ARE ILLEGAL AND SO I DO NOT UNDERSTAND GUYS WHO DO
THIS STUFF.
I GUESS THEY THINK, THEY ARE USED TO WILTING THEIR
POWER ESPECIALLY ON A PLANE, PEOPLE CANNOT GET AWAY FROM YOU.
THEY HAVE TO SIT NEXT YOU FORGOT KNOWS HOW LONGAND ON THE SHOW WE
HAD A COHOST TO TOLD ABOUT HOW SHE WAS SEXUALLY ASSAULTED ON
THE PLANE AND WOMEN HAVE TO DEAL WITH BEING HIT ON ALL THE TIME,
NONSTOP BUT THEN RATNER, ON TOP OF THAT, THE THINGS THAT HE DID
TO THESE WOMEN WHICH WERE NONCONSENSUAL SEXUAL ACTS,
THERE'S NO INTO THIS.
HE BRAGS ABOUT HOW HIS BEST FRIENDS ARE
THE DIRECTOR TOBACK WHO IS ALSO FACING ALLEGATIONS FROM 300
INCIDENTS.
HE ALSO BRAGS THAT ONE OF HIS BEST FRIENDS IS ROMAN POLANSKI.
WHO BRAGS ABOUT THAT?
WHEN YOU READ THE ENTIRE LA TIMES STORY GIVES YOU GREAT
CONTACTS INTO WHAT HAPPENED AND BEYOND JUST RATNER, IT IS
UNFORTUNATELY ENDEMIC IT APPEARS TO NOT JUST HOLLYWOOD, BUT TO
SOCIETY THAT MEN IN POWERFUL POSITIONS WHETHER IT WAS TV LIKE
ROGER AILES, BILL COSBY, BRETT RATNER, AND HARVEY WEINSTEIN,
TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THOSE POSITIONS FAR TOO OFTEN AND NOT
JUST IN THE 1970S, 80S, 90S
BUT ALL THE WAY UP UNTIL NOW AND I THINK THAT IT IS A WONDERFUL
PHENOMENON THAT WOMEN ARE COMING OUT AND SAYING NO MORE.