Ellen Pompeo Comes Under Fire for Resurfaced Remarks About Harvey Weinstein Victims
During the interview, the actress talks about everything from topic her time on the ABC show, pay inequality in Hollywood and the way women are treated in the industry as well. But it's her comments she made about the film producer and convicted sex offender as well sexual assault survivors that are raising eyebrows. that has been making rounds on Twitter this afternoon, Pompeo says,"I think we bear some responsibility, not all, but it takes two to tango for sure.
She added,"I wasn't in the room alone with him. I had been sent there by an agent in the middle of the daytime. I didn't think there was anything wrong. I wouldn't have gone into that room at night. But he did nothing inappropriate toward me. Now had he, I would have picked up that glass and smashed him across the side of the face with it.
As well as the role these two movements have played in calling out sexual harassment and abuse in the workplace and in the Hollywood industry. Ellen responded,"First, men need to understand that they will not get away with it. Number one. Or women need to understand. I don't mean to be sexist about it. Everybody is capable of harassment of any kind, right. So people need to understand that it won't be tolerated and then I think people need to be educated about it."
She went on to talk about not"making excuses for these pigs" that do"disgusting things to women," adding that these"learned behaviors" from men in the Hollywood industry have been learned from other generations of men who"got away with it."
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