Oh no! Our favourite Gossip Girl bad boy Ed Westwick has been accused of raping actress Kristina Cohen.
In a detailed Facebook post, Cohen said she was taken to Westwick’s home in the Hollywood Hills by a producer named Kaine Harling, a man Cohen dated in 2013.
The evening took a turn. Cohen claimed she felt uncomfortable when the British actor said that “we should all f***.” Despite wanting to leave, Cohen said she was convinced by her producer boyfriend, to stay for another 20 minutes “to smooth everything over” while Westwick insisted her to take a nap in the guest bedroom.
Her Facebook post reads,
“I was woken up abruptly by Ed on top of me, his fingers entering my body. I told him to stop, but he was strong. I fought him off as hard as I could but he grabbed my face in his hands, shaking me, telling me he wanted to f*ck me. I was paralyzed, terrified. I couldn’t speak, I could no longer move. He held me down and raped me.
It was a nightmare, and the days following weren’t any better.
The producer put the blame on me, telling me I was an active participant. Telling me that I can’t say anything because Ed will have people come after me, destroy me, and that I could forget about an acting career. Saying there’s no way I can go around saying Ed “raped” me and that I don’t want to be “that girl.” “
Cohen explained in the post that she’s gone “back and forth” about coming forward with her sexual assault accusation, unsure if she would be heard, but “I hope my coming forward will help others to know that they are not alone, that they are not to blame, and it is not their fault. Just as the other women and men coming forward have helped me to realise the same. I hope that my stories and the stories of others help to reset and realign the toxic environments and power imbalances that have created these monsters.”
Westwick now has responded to the allegations, writing that he “does not even know this woman” in a statement released on his official Instgram account.
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Ed Westwick is a British actor who rose to stardom playing Chuck Bass in the CW’s smash hit series Gossip Girl and current star of the BBC series White Gold. Katie Cohen is a 27-year-old is an actress and writer who has had roles in a variety of film and television projects, including “Ladies Like Us”, “Californication”, and “Greek”.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cohen has filed a report with the Los Angels Police Department’s Hollywood precinct and the LAPD is now investigating to determine if “suspect forced victim to have sexual intercourse inside his residence … three years ago.” A close friend of Cohen’s and her sister have both corroborated her account of the alleged assault, and say they were told about it three years ago after it supposedly took place.
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