Dustin Hoffman apologises over alleged sexual harassment incident: 'It's not reflective of who I am'
'I have the utmost respect for women and feel terrible that anything I might have done could have put her in an uncomfortable situation. I am sorry'
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Your support makes all the difference.Dustin Hoffman is apologising for the alleged sexual harassment of a 17-year-old intern in 1985, saying “it is not reflective of who I am.”
Writer Anna Graham Hunter alleges that the now 80-year-old actor groped her on the set of TV movie Death of a Salesman and “talked about sex to me and in front of me.” She was left in tears, she wrote in a Wednesday column in The Hollywood Reporter.
The Oscar-winner replied in a statement: “I have the utmost respect for women and feel terrible that anything I might have done could have put her in an uncomfortable situation. I am sorry. It is not reflective of who I am.”
Hoffman is the latest Hollywood name linked to a deluge of sexual harassment and assault allegations.
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