Morgan Freeman has responded to allegations of sexual harassment, after multiple women came forward claiming inappropriate behaviour by the actor. Earlier today, eight allegations came to light from women after sixteen people spoke to CNN, with eight accusing the 80-year-old of harassment and eight people claiming that they witnessed Freeman’s alleged behaviour.
In a statement released by his publicist on Thursday afternoon, Morgan apologised to anyone who ‘felt uncomfortable or disrespected’ by him.
He said: ‘Anyone who knows me or has worked with me knows I am not someone who would intentionally offend or knowingly make anyone feel uneasy.
‘I apologize to anyone who felt uncomfortable or disrespected – that was never my intent.’ One woman alleged that while working as a production assistant on the film Going In Style, starring Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Alan Arkin, in 2015, Freeman subjected her to unwanted touching and comments about her clothes and body.
She claimed that on one occasion, the actor ‘kept trying to lift up my skirt and asking if I was wearing underwear’, and he became ‘freaked out’ when Arkin told him to stop. Another woman who worked on the set of Now You See Me in 2012 said: ‘He did comment on our bodies…
We knew that if he was coming by … not to wear any top that would show our breasts, not to wear anything that would show our bottoms, meaning not wearing clothes that [were] fitted.’ Four people making the allegations worked in production on sets with Freeman over the past decade; they said they didn’t report his alleged behaviour as they feared for their jobs.
A number of the allegations referred to the environment at Revelations Entertainment, his production company with Lori McCreary.
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