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Molly Ringwald has detailed allegations of sexual assault that date back to her early career.
The former teen icon – known for her roles in John Hughes’ 80s films Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink – has written in The New Yorker about the recent Harvey Weinstein scandal, as well as claiming that she was sexually assaulted by an unnamed film director when she was 14.
“We all seem to have a Harvey story,” Ringwald writes, “each one a little different but with essentially the same nauseating pattern and theme. Women were bullied, cajoled, manipulated, and worse, and then punished.”
“While my own Harvey story may be different, I have had plenty of Harveys of my own over the years, enough to feel a sickening shock of recognition,” she says.
Ringwald goes on to say that, on a film set when she was 13, a “fifty-year-old crew member told me that he would teach me to dance, and then proceeded to push against me with an erection”.
She also claims that a “married film director stuck his tongue in my mouth” on the set of another movie when she was 14.
During her 20s, she says that she was told by one director to let a lead actor “put a dog collar around my neck” during an audition.
Molly Ringwald in ‘The Breakfast Club’
“At a time when I was trying to figure out what it meant to become a sexually viable young woman, at every turn some older guy tried to help speed up the process,” Ringwald writes.
Ringwald continues: “I never talked about these things publicly because, as a woman, it has always felt like I may as well have been talking about the weather. Stories like these have never been taken seriously. Women are shamed, told they are uptight, nasty, bitter, can’t take a joke, are too sensitive. And the men? Well, if they’re lucky, they might get elected President.”
“My hope is that Hollywood makes…
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