Terry Crews filed a report with the Los Angeles Police Department on Wednesday a month after publicly alleging that he was groped by an entertainment executive, Captain Cory Palka with the LAPD Hollywood station confirmed to Variety.
Last month, Crews tweeted that the unfolding Harvey Weinstein scandal hit close to home for him, as he said he was groped by a “high-level Hollywood executive.” Variety broke the news on Nov. 3 that Crews has been preparing to name Adam Venit, the longtime head of WME’s motion picture group, as the executive who allegedly assaulted him.
Venit is on leave as WME investigates the allegation. Crews is a client of the agency, which declined to comment.
Crews’ tweets came as the New York Times and New Yorker dropped bombshell reports detailing decades of sexual harassment and assault allegations against disgraced mogul Weinstein in early October. In his tweets, Crews said the incident occurred in full view of his wife.
“Jumping back I said What are you doing?! My wife saw everything n we looked at him like he was crazy. He just grinned like a jerk,” he wrote at the time. “I was going to kick his a– right then— but I thought twice about how the whole thing would appear.”
Variety has reached out to Crews’ representatives for comment.
This whole thing with Harvey Weinstein is giving me PTSD. Why? Because this kind of thing happened to ME. (1/Cont.) — terrycrews (@terrycrews) October 10, 2017
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. (2/cont.) — terrycrews (@terrycrews) October 10, 2017
Jumping back I said What are you doing?! My wife saw everything n we looked at him like he was crazy. He just grinned like a jerk. (3/cont.) — terrycrews (@terrycrews) October 10, 2017
delicious_tomato on November 9th, 2017 at 04:04 UTC »
If the manliest man ever takes a month to admit he got groped, with his own wife as a witness, and with the avalanche of admittance from other Hollywood stars behind him, that should clearly explain why it’s so hard for regular dudes to say that they went through something like this.
Thanks Terry, you’re still the man.
sanguiniuswept on November 9th, 2017 at 02:43 UTC »
This is incredibly valuable for all the men in this country that are assaulted and don't report it out of shame and fear.
It'll sound weird, but I hope he's not the last to come forward
nondirtysocks on November 9th, 2017 at 02:10 UTC »
It takes a certain courage as a guy with a "manly" persona to admit that he was sexually abused.
This is an issue that is often overlooked and abuse is a serious issue regardless of status, race or gender.