Carol Drinkwater Reveals That She Was Sexually Attacked By Hollywood Director Elia Kazan!! Shares A Heart-Breaking Story On The Facebook

After the news of media mogul Harvey Weinstein, many other celebrities and media personnel have revealed the name of the person who assaulted them.
In between this, many powerful names came forward.
Some of them took social media to apologize while some denied the allegation.

Recently, another sexual assault news made headline when Carol Drinkwater revealed that the Hollywood Director Elia Kazan sexually attacked her.

It nearly took over four decades for Elia for opening up about the assault. Recently, she took Facebook to share her story which she faced in her 20s.

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Carol Drinkwater, sexually attacked by Elia Kazan

Carol Drinkwater recently took Facebook to talk about the sexual abuse she faced during her 20s. On the Facebook, she makes an emotional post, where she wrote:

“very badly damaged in my 20s by a director as famous as HW, more so. It took me years to get over it … I lost a mighty role because I would not play along, would not sleep with the director in question.”

Source: Daily Express (Carol Drinkwater)

This is the first time, she has mentioned the sexual assault in public but she has not taken the name of the abuser on the post. In her last novel ‘The Lost Girl’ in which a famous director with a Greek-sounding surname. raped wannabe starlet Marguerite.

Thinking about her back days, she also mentioned:

“Today, if he behaved towards a budding young actress with such disrespect, she would bloody well take him to court.”

During the screen test of a major Hollywood movie, she met Elia Kazan in Spiegel’s apartment for the first time. They called her for a more formal meeting at his production office the following week. Moreover, she explained:

“I went on a Monday and was put in a private room. We started to do a little bit of the script and in no time he pushed me up against the wall. He pinned me there with his hands on either side of me, and pressed himself up against me hard, kissing my neck.”

Source: World News (Carol Drinkwater with her new book The Lost Girl)

“I was completely freaked and didn’t know what was going on. My first thought was, is this method directing? It’s not Birmingham Rep. I tried to wriggle away from him and he said, ‘If you don’t show me passion, you can’t play this role’. We spent the morning with him pushing and pulling at me. He said, ‘OK, come in tomorrow’ and this went on for a week. Because I didn’t realise what was going on, I turned up like a good girl.”

As the screen test was scheduled for the following week, she arrived at the studio and found out the studio was completely empty. She waited in the dressing room for a while and that was the time when she heard the knock on the door.

Furthermore, she explained the experience by saying:

“He came in, threw me back on the sofa and started pulling at my clothes, forcibly trying to have sex with me.”

However, she managed to move him off by saying she needed to focus on her lines. Despite this, when she went into the screen test she was completely shaken, and the abuse to start again with the camera rolling.

Moreover, she said that he whispered vulgarities in her ear, pushing her about in a way that couldn’t be seen by anyone else. That time, she hardly tried to get their attention.

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Short bio on Carol Drinkwater

Carol Drinkwater is a British-Irish actress and author. She rose to prominence after appearing as Helen Herriot n the television adaptation of the James Herriot books All Creatures Great and Small. In 1985, she has also won the Variety Club Television Personality of the Year award. Furthermore, her notable movies include A Clockwork Orange, Father, and An Awfully Big Adventure. More bio…

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