Charlize Theron opened up about experiencing sexual harassment early in her career.
, the actress said she was sexually harassed by a "very famous" director in 1994, when she was just starting out as an actress. The director invited her to audition at his house on a Saturday night, and when she got there, Theron said, he "wore silk pajamas and offered me a drink and rubbed my knee."
"I was just starting out; I didn’t know the ins and outs, and said to myself as I was driving there at 9pm … 'Maybe that’s how they do it in the movie industry?'" she recalled. At the time, she apologized to the director and said she had to leave, but became angry with herself once she began driving away.
"I just kept hitting the steering wheel," she said. "I put a lot of blame on myself ... that I didn't say all the right things, and that I didn't tell him to take a hike, and that I didn't do all of those things that we so want to believe we'll do in those situations."Terry Gross that she had mentioned him by name in previous interviews, and "every time I disclosed his name, the journalist made the decision not to write his name.
She added that while she doesn't have qualms about naming him, she did have concerns about naming him while promoting her"I'm conflicted in the sense that I know that if I said his name again while promoting this film, that it would take over the importance of the story and that would become the story. And I think there will be a time and a place where I will definitely share this again the way I have always been honest about it.
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