Terry Crews Shares His Me Too Moment With Senate
Comedic actor, author, athlete and assault survivor Terry Crews testified before the senate on Tuesday about his #MeToo sexual harassment story. He was testifying to support the Sexual Assault Survivor’s Bill of Rights in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. “This past year we have seen powerful men in Hollywood and elsewhere finally held accountable for sexual assault. We also saw the backlash survivors faced coming forward. I wanted these survivors to know that I believed them, I supported them, and that this happened to me too,” he told the committee.
His story involved having his crotch squeezed by WME agent Adam Venit during a party. He had reported the incident to WME and received an apologetic phone call after the incident. Crews said that nothing more was done, and that he had heard repeatedly about Venit’s rights, but nobody ever talked about his rights as a survivor. “That was the wake up call. I knew I had to be part of what was happening here today in regard to the Sexual Assault Survivor Bill of Rights.”
Crews is best known for his role on Brooklyn Nine Nine, and he’s also appeared on Portlandia, Drunk History, Arrested Development, Everybody Hates Chris, Are We There Yet, and in The Expendables, Dead Pool 2, and a bunch of Adam Sandler movies like Sandy Wexler, Blended and the Ridiculous 6 and more.
You see ladies. There is change taking place. Congress is willing to listen to a rich powerful man. #Winning
