ok, you got me there.
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If someone close to you has been acting out (even for years) and they tell you they’re being abused, fucking listen.
Corey’s accusations are all the more believable because of his checkered past.
Someone close to me was abused at a young age. She didn’t tell anyone, and started behaving erratically - staying out, running away from home, drinking, and the lying that goes along with those things. When she finally got the courage (still while a child) to tell what was happening, no one wanted to believe her.
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The Michael Jackson bit at the end is an interesting thing to consider.
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It absolutely breaks my heart that people just don’t listen, or believe when victims speak out. Or place some blame on them for what they went through.
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That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be.
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That’s true however both Corey’s exhibit/exhibited classic acting out and risky behavior that is the Hallmark of sexual assault and abuse survivors. I see it daily in loved ones that are also abuse survivors.
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For sure, ultimately he’s still responsible for his choices but i am understanding of them because of what he’s had to cope with. It just upsets me that Barbara Walters had the gall to say what she said to him with a straight face.
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It’s quite possible that Jackson and Fieldmans relationship was completely appropriate . The Corey’s coming out as abuse survivors pretty much ended their movie careers so I can’t imagine that he’d be keeping Jackson’s secrets now.
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I believed him.
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Roy Cohn’s former “beard” deigns to act with any level of righteous indignation?
http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2008/05/barbara-walters-why-i-was-roy-cohns.html
Give us all a break.
She was better off asking aging grand actors what kind of tree they would be.
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The drug abuse and inability to parlay an adult based career didn’t help much either. But that can be part of the result of abuse as well.
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I think it’s telling that she used the word damaging instead of impugning…
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Yeah? To me it sounded less like a poor choice of words than it did victim shaming, protection of the status quo, and denial of the claims of the abused. Simply because a response may be a common one does not make it a legitimate or even tolerable response. In fact, that sort of attitude is why Hollywood still has these problems today.
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Wait? What? I know she is completely out of touch with reality. But it seems to me the actual abuse would be what is damaging the industry. Not the people that are shining a light on that abuse.
Barbara, do us all a favor and retire.
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Baba wawa.
(I’m just sayin’ that because she hates it)
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Yeah, I saw an amazingly astute tweet from Ron Jeremy on the NFL kneeling protests and had a similar reaction. Like, Ron Jeremy is the voice of reason? Seriously?
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Ugh Ron Jeremy
I have a gross story about that dude from an ex (Fyi: she didn’t sleep with him, she met him in passing for a design/promo related thing but it does involve him and someone else). I’d rather not dwell on it though.
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