Recording of After Abort, Felt Up by Crew

Kate Beckinsale posted a video on Instagram in which she described a handful of instances where she has been subjected to harassment and abuse on various sets. The “Underworld” star shared her horror stories in response to Blake Lively’s sexual harassment complaint against her “It Ends With Us” director and co-star Justin Baldoni. Beckinsale said she was “grateful to Lively for highlighting that this is not an archaic problem that no one faces. This goes on.”

Beckinsale began by recalling a set where she was referred to as “that cunt,” all because she had called out a male co-star who was “drunk every day” on set.

“He went through something. I have sympathy for that, but I, like the crew, was waiting six hours a day for him to learn his lines,” Beckinsale said. “It means I’m not going to see my daughter in the evening the whole movie. The studio’s response was to give me a bicycle so I could ride around the campus while I waited. And then of course I was called a cunt and a bitch. Under one roof I was called a ‘stupid bitch’.”

There were two film sets where “I was put on such a strict diet and exercise program — I lost my periods all together,” she continued.

On one of her action films, Beckinsale said her male co-star physically hurt her while filming a fight scene. She was then ostracized by the cast when she mentioned that she had been injured.

“There’s a certain kind of actor who gets a thrill out of being able to legitimately hurt a woman during a fight sequence,” she explained. “And I got hurt, to the point where there were MRIs to prove it. I was gaslighted and made to feel like I was the problem, and I was blamed and left out of cast dinners as soon I mentioned there was a problem.”

Then there was a photo shoot that Beckinsale was “forced by a publicist” to do “the day after I had a miscarriage. I said, ‘I can’t do that. I’m bleeding. I don’t want to go change clothes in front of people, I don’t know, and do a photo shoot. I’m bleeding from a miscarriage.’ She said, ‘You will have to or you will be sued.’

“This is going on. This has been going on forever. I have 47 million stories like this,” Beckinsale said of the harassment female actors often face on set. “I was 18 and I felt attracted to someone who I really trusted in a team. I went to the lead actress, who was known to be pro-women, and said this is happening, and I was told, ‘No, it didn’t.’ I went to another actress and said I had just been assaulted by this man and said, ‘No, you haven’t’.”

“If you mention it, you’re screwed,” Beckinsale added about why it remains impossible for women to be heard on set. “You’re supposed to absorb it and somehow you’re the homie. It has to stop. I am grateful to Blake Lively for highlighting that this is not an archaic problem no one faces. This continues. When that happens, a machine moves into place to completely destroy you.”

Watch Beckinsale’s full Instagram video in the post below.