UPDATED with afternoon session: A woman who said filmmaker Paul Haggis “attacked” her in 2008 during a meeting in his office in Los Angeles said she stood up and backpedaled through an emergency ex…
“attacked” her in 2008 during a meeting in his office in Los Angeles said she stood up and backpedaled through an emergency exit door with her hands up and her eyes peeled on Haggis as he kept “trying to grab” her until she got to the curb outside and to safety.
She is one of of four Jane Does that Breest’s lawyers are calling in support of their case, and she said that in the moment, she feared she was about to be raped. “I felt like if that happened I would never be the same person again,” she said. Then he said, “I want to be inside you,” came out of his seat and around the table separating them, grabbed her by the arms and tried to kiss her, she testified. “It was not romantic. It was not a pass,” she said. “It was violent.”
The woman called it Haggis’ “apology e-mail” and his way of setting a narrative in case he was asked about the encounter. She said he wasn’t the one to close her car door, and she didn’t reply. But she did respond to another e-mail, and remained in touch with him about the book adaptation idea and her visa application.
“And you don’t just attack one person like that in your life,” she said of her encounter with Haggis. “That’s just not how this works.”Haleigh Breest finished testifying Tuesday in her sexual assault civil trial against filmmaker Paul Haggis, and jurors began watching the video deposition of another Haggis accuser who has said she went to his office in Los Angeles in 2008 to discuss a possible book adaption and wound up fleeing the building when he suddenly tried to kiss her.
On Tuesday, Chaudhry raised another piece of ’90s pop culture referenced in the texts: the song “Stupid Girl” by the rock band Garbage, whose “stupid girl” refrain Breest said she had in her head after her experience with Haggis. Chaudhry read aloud some of the lyrics including, “All you had you wasted,” “I can’t believe you fake it,” and “You pretend you’re high/Pretend you’re bored/Pretend you’re anything/Just to be adored.
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