Kate Beckinsale opened up about her harrowing experience in Hollywood in the wake of the sexual harassment complaint that Blake Lively recently filed against Justin Baldoni.
The 51-year-old actress took to her official Instagram account on December 30 and posted a video speaking about the abusive behavior she had faced and she has about “47million stories” to tell.
The Serendipity star noted that Lively and Baldoni’s case “highlighted … this machine that goes into effect when a woman complains about something legitimately offensive, upsetting, harmful, whatever, in this industry.”
“I was forced by a publicist, that I was employing, to do a photo shoot the day after I had a miscarriage,” Beckinsale recalled. “I said, “I can’t. I’m bleeding. I don’t want to go and change my clothes in front of people I don’t know and do a photo shoot.”
“‘I’m bleeding out a miscarriage’. She was like, ‘You’ll have to, or you’ll be sued’,” she noted.
Sharing another on-set experience, the actress revealed, “I was put on such a strict diet-and-exercise program on one movie that I lost my periods altogether — that’s happened twice.”
While speaking about one more encounter Beckinsale shared that she was once called “c*** and a b****” for complaining about her “drunk co-star” who made her wait six hours
She asserted that she has been “gaslit and made to feel like I was a problem, blamed and ostracised.”
“I’m grateful to Blake Lively for highlighting that this is not an archaic problem that no one’s facing — this is continuing,” she added. “And I’m sure that’s the case in other industries as well, and it’s just got to stop.”
