WATCH: shares her personal story of the sexual harassment she faced at CBS and the secret arbitration process she was forced to enter. Dushku would have received for the balance of her contract as a series regular, and was determined in a mutually agreed upon mediation process at the time.”ĭushku said she is hoping to help end for others the secret arbitration process she felt forced to enter involving her allegations. “The settlement of these claims reflects the projected amount that Ms. Dushku’s claims are an example that, while we remain committed to a culture defined by a safe, inclusive and respectful workplace, our work is far from done,” CBS said in a statement to CNN around the time of the agreement. “After reflecting on this further, I better understand that what I said was both not funny and not appropriate and I am sorry and regret the pain this caused Eliza.” When Eliza told me that she wasn’t comfortable with my language and attempt at humor, I was mortified to have offended her and immediately apologized,” Weatherly told the New York Times in 2018. “During the course of taping our show, I made some jokes mocking some lines in the script. I suffered near constant sexual harassment from my co-star.”ĭushku added that Weatherly called her “legs” and talked about his sperm. However, in my first week on my new job I found myself the brunt of crude, sexualized and lewd verbal assaults. The actress said in her testimony: “In 2017, I was aggressively pursued by CBS to become a co-lead in a show called ‘Bull.’ I was told that the role would be a six-year commitment to play a smart, strong leading lady - a competent, high-powered lawyer meant to counter balance the existing male lead, and that the role had been written specifically with me in mind. In 2018, CBS agreed to pay Dushku $9.5 million after she claimed she was written off of “Bull” in retaliation for accusations she came forward with against Michael Weatherly.īefore Congress, Dushku was able to talk outside a non-disclosure agreement. Head over to The Boston Globe to read Dushku’s op-ed in its entirety.Eliza Dushku testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday about her sexual harassment accusations during her time on “Bull.” Weatherly sexually harassed and bullied me day-in and day-out and would have gotten away with it had he not been caught on tape, and had the CBS lawyers not inadvertently shared the tapes with my counsel, Barbara Robb.”ĬBS’ $9.5 million settlement with Dushku represents a portion of what the actress would have received had she finished out what was intended to be a six-year contract. “Everyone should be allowed to work without harassment. “There was daily undeniably demeaning conduct that is unacceptable in an absolute sense,” Dushku writes. The actress writes after the meeting she started to be retaliated against on set and “iced out” by Weatherly. As was caught on tape, after I flubbed a line, he shouted in my face, ‘I will take you over my knee and spank you like a little girl.'”Īccording to Dushku, she was fired from “Bull” soon after meeting with Weatherly in his trailer and confronting him about the on-set harassment. I wanna have a threesome with you too.’ For weeks, Weatherly was recorded making sexual comments, and was recorded mimicking penis jousting with a male costar, this directly on the heels of the ‘threesome’ proposal, and another time referring to me repeatedly as ‘legs.’ĭushku continues by saying Weatherly consistently made comments about her “ravishing beauty,” as well as “audible groans, oohing and aahing.” The actress writes, “Weatherly had a habit of exaggerated eye-balling and leering at me once, he leaned into my body and inhaled, smelling me in a dramatic swoon. “Minutes later, a crew member sidled up next to me and, with a smirk, said in a low voice, ‘I’m with Bull. For the record, I grew up in Boston with. “He made the threesome remark to me about himself and me in a room full of people,” Dushku writes. Nunnelly on Bull Dave Russell/CBS That’s how a perpetrator rationalizes when he is caught.
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