Another rape allegation comes to shake the art world, as an actress has denounced a well-known director.
According to RealNews, the actress, who has appeared in several hit TV series, filed a lawsuit a few days ago against a well-known director for raping her in 2010, when she was 21 years old.
The director has signed many TV productions and, in fact, his latest serial is currently airing on a major TV station and is a big hit.
In her lawsuit, the 31-year-old actress says she met the director in 2009 through mutual friendship.[/B]
What she says in the lawsuit
"Our acquaintance was merely friendly, as I had never given him the slightest right to think otherwise. I note here that I had met his wife and child a few times and we went out in common company simply for fun. After several months of getting to know the fugitive, he had gained my trust. I was now deeply convinced that he was a family man who inspired security and trustworthiness in me," she notes in her lawsuit.
However, as she claims, she was proven wrong the first time they went out alone.
"One evening, specifically in the early summer of 2010, the defendant suggested that we go out to dinner and then continue for drinks at a club where there would be some people we were hanging out with at the time. He came and picked me up from my house in his car and we drove to the club where we ordered food and a bottle of wine. After finishing the first bottle, the defendant ordered a second and I don't remember if he ordered a third. I started to feel dizzy, progressively I felt like I was losing consciousness, which was surprising to me. I don't know if there was any other substance in the wine I drank. I was no longer feeling well at all and I was afraid I was going to faint. I told him to leave. From the moment we left, until the moment I regained consciousness, I have a blackout. All I remember is that by the time I opened my eyes we were in his car and he had penetrated my body with his genitals and was having intercourse with me without my knowledge or consent. When I realized what was happening I froze in fear," the actress claimed.
Then, according to what she says in her lawsuit, she started kicking him, screaming and crying. At some point he got up from her and realized they were in a dark, secluded parking lot.
"I was scared for my life. It occurred to me that if I went out on the road in this situation alone something even worse might happen to me, so the hit-and-run driver got in the driver's seat and started driving towards the club where we were meeting our friends," she noted.
All the way there he wouldn't speak to her at all, while she yelled at him, "Why did he do this to me?" He also claimed that he did not report her rape at the time because he was afraid, and since then he has experienced frequent anxiety disorders, periodic bouts of depression and emotional numbness.
However, after his colleagues' complaints and the explosion of Greek #metoo, he gained strength and decided to call for the punishment of her rapist.
Source: RealNews/in.gr
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