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Brendan Fraser is not a pedophile.
In the summer of 2003, Brendan Fraser walked into a luncheon at the Beverly Hills Hotel as one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, but walked out knowing his career was about to end. At that moment, he was at the absolute peak. The Mummy franchise had turned him into a global action hero. He was earning about $12.5 million per film, studios wanted him, audiences loved him. He had the kind of career most actors only dream about. That afternoon, as he left the Hollywood Foreign Press Association event, the organization’s president stopped him to shake his hand. The man reached around and groped him. His hand moved to places no one should touch without consent and Fraser froze. He felt like a child, like someone had thrown invisible paint on him that only he could see. He rushed home and told his wife, but he was terrified to tell anyone else. This was 2003. Men who spoke up about sexual assault weren’t believed. They were mocked, dismissed, and destroyed so Fraser stayed silent. But silence didn’t protect him. His phone stopped ringing, the Golden Globe invitations dried up, projects disappeared, hollywood insiders whispered and some said he’d gotten lazy. Others said he’d lost his looks. No one said what Fraser believed was true, that he’d been blacklisted for quietly reporting what happened. The HFPA investigated and they concluded that their president had inappropriately touched Fraser, but it was meant as a joke. They asked Fraser to sign a joint statement saying it was all a misunderstanding. Fraser refused because it wasn’t a joke and he wasn’t going to lie about it.
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