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Louis CK: 'Beschuldigingen zijn waar'
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De bekende Amerikaanse acteur en komiek Louis CK heeft toegegeven dat de beschuldigingen van seksueel grensoverschrijdend gedrag, die de afgelopen week door vijf verschillende vrouwen gedaan werden, waar zijn. De vrouwen deden in het kader van #MeToo hun verhaal in de New York Times. De vrouwen verklaarden allen dat de populaire komiek zich aftrok in hun bijzijn, terwijl zij daar duidelijk niet op zaten te wachten. In sommige gevallen trok hij ook zijn kleren uit. De vrouwen die zich eerder uitspraken over het wangedrag van C.K. zeiden dat dit een negatieve impact had op de verloop van hun carrière.
In een statement aan verslaggevers van onder andere The Guardian ontkent hij op geen enkele manier de verhalen van de vrouwen: ‘Deze verhalen zijn waar. Toentertijd zei ik tegen mezelf dat wat ik deed okay was omdat ik mijn pik nooit aan een vrouw liet zien zonder het eerst even te vragen, wat ook waar is’ aldus CK.
"Maar wat ik later in mijn leven leerde, te laat, is dat wanneer je macht hebt over een andere person, het geen verzoek is wanneer je aan ze vraagt om naar je pik te kijken. Voor hen is het een hele moeilijke positie. De macht die ik ocer deze vrouwen had is dat ze me bewonderden. En ik ben onverantwoordelijk omgegaan met die macht."
De film van Louis CK, I Love You Daddy, die op het punt stond om in premiere te gaan, werd afgeblazen vlak voor de NYT zijn beschuldigingen publiceerde. De film gaat over de ontluikende relatie tussen een man van 68 en een meisje van 17. CK speelde zelf de hoofdrol, en schreef, regisseerde financierde en produceerde de film ook.
‘Ik heb heel mijn carrière, die lang is en waar ik veel geluk mee heb, gepraat en alles gezegd wat ik wilde’ zegt CK. ‘Ik zal nu een stap terugdoen en lang de tijd nemen om te luisteren’.
Lees hier de volledige verklaring in het Engels:
"I want to address the stories told to the New York Times by five women named Abby, Rebecca, Dana, Julia who felt able to name themselves and one who did not.
These stories are true. At the time, I said to myself that what I did was okay because I never showed a woman my dick without asking first, which is also true. But what I learned later in life, too late, is that when you have power over another person, asking them to look at your dick isn’t a question. It’s a predicament for them. The power I had over these women is that they admired me. And I wielded that power irresponsibly.
I have been remorseful of my actions. And I’ve tried to learn from them. And run from them. Now I’m aware of the extent of the impact of my actions. I learned yesterday the extent to which I left these women who admired me feeling badly about themselves and cautious around other men who would never have put them in that position. I also took advantage of the fact that I was widely admired in my and their community, which disabled them from sharing their story and brought hardship to them when they tried because people who look up to me didn’t want to hear it. I didn’t think that I was doing any of that because my position allowed me not to think about it. There is nothing about this that I forgive myself for. And I have to reconcile it with who I am. Which is nothing compared to the task I left them with.
I wish I had reacted to their admiration of me by being a good example to them as a man and given them some guidance as a comedian, including because I admired their work.
The hardest regret to live with is what you’ve done to hurt someone else. And I can hardly wrap my head around the scope of hurt I brought on them. I’d be remiss to exclude the hurt that I’ve brought on people who I work with and have worked with who’s professional and personal lives have been impacted by all of this, including projects currently in production: the cast and crew of Better Things, Baskets, The Cops, One Mississippi, and I Love You Daddy. I deeply regret that this has brought negative attention to my manager Dave Becky who only tried to mediate a situation that I caused. I’ve brought anguish and hardship to the people at FX who have given me so much The Orchard who took a chance on my movie and every other entity that has bet on me through the years. I’ve brought pain to my family, my friends, my children and their mother.
I have spent my long and lucky career talking and saying anything I want. I will now step back and take a long time to listen.
Thank you for reading."
These stories are true. At the time, I said to myself that what I did was okay because I never showed a woman my dick without asking first, which is also true. But what I learned later in life, too late, is that when you have power over another person, asking them to look at your dick isn’t a question. It’s a predicament for them. The power I had over these women is that they admired me. And I wielded that power irresponsibly.
I have been remorseful of my actions. And I’ve tried to learn from them. And run from them. Now I’m aware of the extent of the impact of my actions. I learned yesterday the extent to which I left these women who admired me feeling badly about themselves and cautious around other men who would never have put them in that position. I also took advantage of the fact that I was widely admired in my and their community, which disabled them from sharing their story and brought hardship to them when they tried because people who look up to me didn’t want to hear it. I didn’t think that I was doing any of that because my position allowed me not to think about it. There is nothing about this that I forgive myself for. And I have to reconcile it with who I am. Which is nothing compared to the task I left them with.
I wish I had reacted to their admiration of me by being a good example to them as a man and given them some guidance as a comedian, including because I admired their work.
The hardest regret to live with is what you’ve done to hurt someone else. And I can hardly wrap my head around the scope of hurt I brought on them. I’d be remiss to exclude the hurt that I’ve brought on people who I work with and have worked with who’s professional and personal lives have been impacted by all of this, including projects currently in production: the cast and crew of Better Things, Baskets, The Cops, One Mississippi, and I Love You Daddy. I deeply regret that this has brought negative attention to my manager Dave Becky who only tried to mediate a situation that I caused. I’ve brought anguish and hardship to the people at FX who have given me so much The Orchard who took a chance on my movie and every other entity that has bet on me through the years. I’ve brought pain to my family, my friends, my children and their mother.
I have spent my long and lucky career talking and saying anything I want. I will now step back and take a long time to listen.
Thank you for reading.
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