Gossip Girl Star Ed Westwick Accused of Rape
In another instance of #MeToo, actress Kristina Cohen has alleged that Ed Westwick—aka Chuck Bass from “Gossip Girl”—raped her three years ago.
Via a lengthy and detailed Facebook post, Cohen says she was taken to Westwick’s home by a producer she was dating at the time. She claims that she first became uncomfortable when the actor said that “we should all fuck,” but was convinced to stay so as to not make things “awkward.”
At some point in the evening, Cohen says she went and laid down in the guest room (at Westwick’s suggestion) and was awakened with the actor on top of her and “his fingers entering my body.” She continues, claiming “he held me down and raped me.” Cohen says that the producer persuaded her to believe that she was somehow complicit and that making accusations against Westwick would kill her acting career. She writes, “And for the longest time, I believed him. I didn’t want to be ‘that girl.'”
Cohen says that her decision to go public now has been an extremely difficult one, 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 realize 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 has not yet commented on the allegations.
Read the entire Facebook post below: