"Feeling lighter & freer today, & here's hoping this important legislation passes & it was all for something bigger/better for everyone. "Thanks so much for your support & love~Means the world," she tweeted. Feeling lighter & freer today, & here’s hoping this important legislation passes & it was all for something bigger/better for everyone □ In awe of all the other women who testified, let’s send them healing vibes & energy xo- Eliza Dushku Novem Wednesday, Dushku took to Twitter to thank fans and followers for their support following her testimony. Thanks so much for your support & love~Means the world. Thank you for hearing me and for considering this important legislation." Accountability and transparency aren't partisan issues. "I offer my strength and solidarity to all the other brave women who will speak today," she concluded. "I've been reduced to being: Eliza Dushku, the actress who was paid off for allegedly being sexually harassed on a TV series."ĭushku ended her testimony by stressing that "because of binding arbitration, there will never be real justice for me and for countless other victims of sexual harassment and assault." While she said she was given the opportunity to "break that silence," she noted that "countless others who are bound by arbitration are not so fortunate." "To this day, whenever my career, my life's work, is referenced, my accomplishments as an actor are ignored," Dushku added. "For next year I found myself pitted against one of the most powerful media corporations in the world - CBS - with its unlimited resources, which was controlled by the men who use the arbitration clause to protect themselves, their profitable show and to silence me to this day." I had unknowingly signed," she continued. "I was trapped by the binding arbitration clause. However, she said no one aside from CBS and her legal team "has ever seen or will ever see those tapes." "I was shocked to learn that I had signed away my rights to a public forum before taking a job."ĬBS's Problematic Response for Keeping 'Bull' After Sexual Harassment Allegations: 'It's a Very Popular Show'ĭushku added that CBS had "handed over hundreds of hours of tape" after receiving a letter from her counsel, with the harassment "captured verbatim" on the footage. " never understood that there were mandatory arbitration clauses that would be used to keep what had happened to me a secret, and would protect CBS and the sexual harassment perpetrator who had blatantly retaliated against me for trying to stop the harassment in my workplace," she said. They were incessant and demeaning and directed at me in the middle of what was supposed to be a professional workplace."ĭushku also noted that while she's "signed countless contracts negotiated on my behalf" throughout her career, she said she was unaware of the arbitration process. This was beyond anything I had experienced in my 30-year career."ĭushku went on to share some examples of her costar's alleged inappropriate behavior, saying the actor would "frequently refer" to her as "legs" and once bragged about his "powerful" sperm. I suffered near constant sexual harassment from my co-star. "However, in my first week on my new job I found myself the brunt of crude, sexualized and lewd verbal assaults. #EndForcedArbitration /ZhgoLrYVnX- House Judiciary Dems Novem 2017, I was aggressively pursued by CBS to become a co-lead in a show called 'Bull.' I was told that the role would be a six-year commitment to play a smart, strong leading lady - a competent, high-powered lawyer meant to counterbalance the existing male lead - and that the role had been written specifically with me in mind," Dushku began. WATCH: shares her personal story of the sexual harassment she faced at CBS and the secret arbitration process she was forced to enter.
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