I was groped at 18 & beaten up by male actors for thrills, Hollywood is STILL toxic, says Kate Beckinsale
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KATE BECKINSALE is a kick-ass actor who has taken down the bad guys onscreen in numerous action movies. But behind the scenes, the 51-year-old British beauty says she has been fighting against a violent and sexually abusive industry for three decades.
![[Kate Beckinsale says she has been fighting against a violent and sexually abusive film industry for three decades]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/kate-beckinsale-attends-summer-gala-919087320.jpg?strip=all&w=640)
Now Kate — best known for the Underworld vampire series, Pearl Harbor and Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator — has broken Hollywood’s code of silence. She says she was “felt up” aged 18 by a trusted crew member, was left covered in bruises by an actor who got a “thrill” out of striking her during filming, and was forced to go through with a photoshoot the day after suffering a miscarriage.
![[Kate praised her Pearl Harbor co-star Ben Affleck, saying he protected her]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/d4e32d0d-60cd-4957-85d5-47cac0f7dbdf.jpg?strip=all&w=637)
Kate, who struggled with anorexia when she was 15, also told how she was made to undertake a dangerously strict diet by image-obsessed showbusiness bosses. Now she has decided to speak out following the explosive row between Blake Lively and It Ends With Us director Justin Baldoni.
![[The Brit actress as vampire assassin Selene in Underworld]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/bb0cda83-4279-43ce-81ed-cfbdbc763a78.jpg?strip=all&w=636)
Mother-of-one Kate praised Blake, 37, for her legal action, filed in December, that alleges sexually inappropriate behaviour and bullying on the set of the new film. There’s a certain kind of actor who gets a kind of a thrill out of sort of being able to legally harm a woman during a fight sequence.
![[The star in the video she posted on Instagram detailing years of mistreatment]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/instagram-post-women-treatment-hollywood-960933500.jpg?strip=all&w=617)
And she agrees with Blake that female stars who complain about their male colleagues end up being shunned rather than helped. Kate says that when she raised concerns about an actor who had bruised her and ripped her clothes during a scene, the industry turned on her.
![[Kate asked fans to stop speculating on identities and insisted Ben Affleck was not the co-star she mentioned]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/instagram-post-women-treatment-hollywood-960933470.jpg?strip=all&w=956)
