Ashley Judd molested; #MeToo, Weinstein

Jasmyn Belcher Morris, Emma Bowman (NPR); Ashley Judd, Ted Klontz (StoryCorps.org); Victoria's Secret; The Nails ("88 Lines About 44 Women"); Ashley Wells, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

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How #MeToo began with Judd sister

You, sir, are a predator. Go to hospital jail!

Ashley Judd was one of the first women to publicly accuse convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein of [workplace] sexual harassment. Time's up.

The NY Times published her and others' accounts alleging decades of predatory sexual behavior by film producer Weinstein — setting off a national conversation about sexual harassment and the #MeToo Movement.

F U, JUDDge. I still have power and $300 mil.

Weinstein apologized the same day in a statement, telling the Times that his behavior with colleagues had "caused a lot of pain." He was fired from the production company he co-founded three days later.

Although Judd also told Variety in 2015 that she had been sexually harassed by a powerful studio mogul, she did not name Weinstein.

Emma Bowman (M. Morgan/NPR)

Judd sat down with her older friend Ted Klontz to talk about what was going through her head before and after she decided to name Weinstein.

"About six months or so ago," Klontz says, "you called me and you said, 'I'm going to do it.' And that meant allow The New York Times to use your name specifically."...

Judd says, "I think the courage comes from the little girl inside of me and my commitment to doing right by her."

Judd also says she was sexually molested: Her earliest memory of it was when she was 7-years-old, incest when she was growing up in Kentucky. She documents the experience in her 2011 memoir, All That is Bitter and Sweet. More

• Ashley Judd molested, incested, abused as child (ABC)
• Strength in shared stories of childhood sexual abuse

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