![]() And no one should ever be attacked or judged for standing up for themselves. She added: “Everyone deserves to do their job without fear of being forced into an impossible situation. The guy exploited his position of power to abuse women.” reentering the public eye would ever be considered a ‘comeback’ story is disturbing. will make a ‘comeback,’” Corry wrote in May. When she finally came forward with her own story, she received death threats. and attacking the women who spoke out against him. ![]() In the years after, she wrote, she tried to stay silent, but everywhere she went, as a comedian, she would find people defending C.K. Word of C.K.’s actions got back to Courteney Cox and David Arquette, who were producing the pilot, and who offered to shut it down, but as Corry told the Times, “Things were going well for me, and I had no interest in being the person who shut down a production.” Dana Min Goodman and Julia Wolov will play versions of themselves in the project, loosely based on their real-life experiences when they moved in together after going through breakups at the same. put her in a “lose-lose” situation when he approached her on the set of a TV pilot they were working on in 2005, and asked if he could masturbate in front of her. In an essay for Vulture in May, comedian Rebecca Corry said C.K. Here’s how they have said C.K.’s actions affected their careers. to feel he had been sufficiently absolved of his misconduct, the road forward has been more complicated for the women who dared to speak out after he took his penis out in front of them and masturbated (or asked them whether he could masturbate in front of them, or masturbated while talking to them on the phone ). After all, most audiences and venues still value a powerful man’s work more than they value that humanity of the women he hurt.Īnd while nine quiet months were all it took C.K. News of his set prompted a lot of backlash on social media, but it’s hard to believe that he would be turned away from any comedy club should he choose to randomly show up and do another tone-deaf rape whistle bit. issued a statement in which he admitted all of their claims were true, mentioned thrice how much he was admired, and said he would now “step back and take a long time to listen.” Nine months later, he apparently decided he had done enough listening and was ready to start talking again, and on Sunday, he dropped in for an unscheduled performance at New York’s Comedy Cellar. If the ongoing Harvey Weinstein scandal was the first domino to fall, then over the past fortnight we’ve caught wind of accusations being leveled against Kevin Spacey, Brett Ratner, Dustin Hoffman and Charlie Sheen.Photo: Vera Anderson/WireImage/Getty Imagesīack in November, one day after the New York Times published a report in which five women accused him of sexual misconduct, Louis C.K. now joins a long line of prominent Hollywood men who have been brought into the spotlight for their alleged misconduct. Its New York premiere has since been canceled in light of the Times’ exposé. is preparing to launch his new movie, I Love You, Daddy, which follows a television writer whose 17-year-old daughter is seduced by an older movie producer, one rumored to be a pedophile. ![]() ![]() These deeply troubling allegations come just as Louis C.K. ‘He proceeded to take all of his clothes off, and get completely naked, and started masturbating.’” Goodman said in an interview with The New York Times. asked if he could take out his penis. They thought it was a joke and laughed it off. As soon as they sat down in his room, still wrapped in their winter jackets and hats, Louis C.K. ![]()
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