Today's Blind Items - Telling Her Story

A lot of women are feeling emboldened to tell their stories about the way they have been treated in Hollywood. This particular story is interesting to me because even though she has made her living from this family entertainment channel, she has always been a little outside the usual age bracket of their stars. I like to say she is in the High School Musical for this decade. Something nice and big and popular that will probably make her a nice living for the next decade at least.

Her first job in LA was not as an actress. She made her living through another form of entertainment. From day one, she was told that she was going to have to have sex for sales. If she wanted someone to use her stuff, she was going to have to have sex. If she wanted to obtain another person's product she was going to have to have sex. She was still barely a teenager when two guys in a recording studio raped her. They were very big music producers. She was told to not say or do anything and in return was given three stacks of cash and told to take a vacation.

On one of the first television shows where she worked, she was "hazed." Apparently the hazing included naked photos of her taken without her knowledge during a costume fitting and then the cast and crew watching a slide show of it during a lunch break. They only did this with women and not men. The cast, which was heavily female never said a word about the ritual which happened to every attractive female actress that got a role on the show. The main cast said they didn't want to lose their jobs or rock the boat so went along with it.

Her big break she landed by audition. She says she didn't have to do anything but audition. She says though when she got on set, her co-star, who at the time of filming was barely legal, had to audition in a bikini for multiple men. This was despite the fact she had a history with this particular studio and was working for them at the time. The co-star was asked about her sex life under the pretense they couldn't afford for her to get pregnant. They asked her whole sexual history. No women in the room. Just men. She then had to go to dinner with two of the producers who each took turns hitting on her and kept reminding her there were plenty of other teens who would do anything for the part.

On her next project, our actress also landed her job by audition but said her not old enough to drive co-star had been subjected to the same treatment from the same group of men and the same series of questions and bikini auditions.

The whole process has made our actress not want to work. She says no to almost everything. She won't go to auditions alone and never goes out to dinner to talk about roles.