![]() ![]() I expected there to be an investigation and that didn’t happen.” And I fully expected them to, first of all, to fire this individual, and that didn’t happen. “We’re not talking about, you stepped on my foot by accident… You assaulted me. “Like, ‘my bad!'” Which did not satisfy Crews. His assailant called to apologize, Crews said. You’re right, it’s unacceptable.’ And then they disappeared. I said, ‘What are you going to do about this predator that you have roaming your hallways?’ And I was told, ‘We’re going to do everything in our power. ![]() I have texts, I have phone conversations, and I said, ‘This is unacceptable.’ And I told them how I almost got violent, but I didn’t. We left.īut the next day, I went right to the agency. Because I did not go into my first reaction. It was the strength of my wife who told me: If this situation happens, let’s leave. She said, if you ever get goaded, prodded, if you ever have anyone try to push you into any kind of situation, don’t do it. I have seen many, many young black men who were provoked into violence, and they were in prison, or they were killed, and they’re not here. You only have a few chances you make yourself a viable member of the community. “Senator, as a black man in America –” Crews started, and then he sighed. “I was very vocal, immediately,” Crews said, adding that while his first reaction was to get physically violent, he held himself back. Noting that he seemed to be “overt and direct” to her, she wanted to know if he’d behaved that way in the moment, “or if this is a new you.” Diane Feinstein (D-CA) asked Crews about the details of his assault. ![]() My wife n I were at a Hollywood function last year n a high level Hollywood executive came over 2 me and groped my privates. And it was surreal to see a room full of politicians and advocates speak eloquently and with such specificity about sexual assault - citing statistics on rape kit backlogs asking, as Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley did, “what more can we do to better promote justice for victims in the criminal justice system?” - while an alleged serial sexual predator serves as president. It reveals something both about Crews’ celebrity and the heightened public awareness about, and investment in, the experiences of sexual violence survivors that the hearing was completely full. And Tuesday morning, he appeared before the Senate Judiciary committee to advocate for the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Bill of Rights’ alongside the bill’s author, Amanda Nguyen, who was just nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. He later named his assailant, WME agent Adam Venit, and filed a police report. “When my assault happened, quite honestly, I probably would have been laughed out of the police station.” So many preconceived notions that people tend to have about sexual assault - who the perpetrators and victims are, how and where and when it can occur - are rattled by Crews, who came forward last fall to say that, in February 2016 while attending a party with his wife, he was groped twice by a Hollywood executive. He knows what people see when they look at him, if they know anything at all about his biography: An actor whose build betrays his history as a professional football player, a man who looks like he can take care of himself. Terry Crews knows that what happened to him is hard to believe. ![]()
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