![]() ![]() According to Dushku, Weatherly campaigned for her to be fired (he denies this) and trivialized her complaint as resulting from a “humor deficit.” Because of course Dushku’s sense of humor is really the problem in this situation.Īs part of the settlement agreement, Dushku ordered CBS to hire a sexual harassment expert to oversee Weatherly’s conduct on set. In one particularly disturbing incident, Dushku alleges that she incorrectly delivered a line, prompting Weatherly to shout at her, “I will take you over my knee and spank you like a little girl.” She says the incident was captured on tape. The Bring It On actress accused her Bull costar of repeatedly making lewd comments about her appearance and saying he wanted to have a threesome with her. ![]() In a first-person article for The Boston Globe, she wrote, “I took a job and, because I did not want to be harassed, I was fired.” However, her character was written off after she issued a sexual harassment complaint against Weatherly. In December, the news broke that the network paid Dushku a whopping $9.5 million following allegations that Weatherly sexually harassed her numerous times on set.ĭushku appeared in the legal drama for three episodes in 2017 at the end of its first season, though she was expected to become a regular cast member in the second season. Head over to The Boston Globe to read Dushku’s op-ed in its entirety.On Monday, in news setting Hollywood back years, the Michael Weatherly-led CBS series Bull returns for a fourth season after a multimillion-dollar settlement with actress Eliza Dushku over sexual harassment complaints. Weatherly sexually harassed and bullied me day-in and day-out and would have gotten away with it had he not been caught on tape, and had the CBS lawyers not inadvertently shared the tapes with my counsel, Barbara Robb.”ĬBS’ $9.5 million settlement with Dushku represents a portion of what the actress would have received had she finished out what was intended to be a six-year contract. “Everyone should be allowed to work without harassment. “There was daily undeniably demeaning conduct that is unacceptable in an absolute sense,” Dushku writes. The actress writes after the meeting she started to be retaliated against on set and “iced out” by Weatherly. As was caught on tape, after I flubbed a line, he shouted in my face, ‘I will take you over my knee and spank you like a little girl.'”Īccording to Dushku, she was fired from “Bull” soon after meeting with Weatherly in his trailer and confronting him about the on-set harassment. I wanna have a threesome with you too.’ For weeks, Weatherly was recorded making sexual comments, and was recorded mimicking penis jousting with a male costar, this directly on the heels of the ‘threesome’ proposal, and another time referring to me repeatedly as ‘legs.’ĭushku continues by saying Weatherly consistently made comments about her “ravishing beauty,” as well as “audible groans, oohing and aahing.” The actress writes, “Weatherly had a habit of exaggerated eye-balling and leering at me once, he leaned into my body and inhaled, smelling me in a dramatic swoon. “Minutes later, a crew member sidled up next to me and, with a smirk, said in a low voice, ‘I’m with Bull. “He made the threesome remark to me about himself and me in a room full of people,” Dushku writes. The actress writes Weatherly’s harassment started “early on.” Weatherly’s inappropriate behavior allegedly included asking Dushku to his “rape van, filled with all sorts of lubricants and long phallic things.” Dushku writes her co-star constantly name-called her, played “provocative songs” on set when she approached her set marks, and made a comment to her about having a threesome. “I was hired to finish the last three episodes of season one,” the actress said, “with CBS’s expressed intention of my beginning season two as a series regular with an option for up to six seasons.” Kevin Spacey Casting Defended by Producer, Paul Schrader Says ‘Let Him Act’ If Not Guiltyĭushku joined “Bull” towards the end of the first season and writes that she was told she was being brought on to make the series more of a “two hander” heading into Season 2.
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