Dushku’s story points to ‘new, horrific reality’

PASADENA, CALIF. Actress Eliza Dushku says a stunt co-ordinator sexually molested her at age 12 during production of the 1994 film True Lies.

Dushku also alleges Joel Kramer, then 36, caused her to be injured on the set as payback for disclosing the alleged misconduct to a friend. Kramer denied the accusations as “lies” in various interviews.

“These are outlandish, manipulated lies,” Kramer told the website Deadline. “I never sexually molested her.” Kramer’s agency, Worldwide Production Agency, confirmed it they no longer represents him.

Jamie Lee Curtis, who played Dushku’s mother in the movie, said “I was shocked and saddened then and still am today.” Curtis said: “we have all started to awaken to the fact that the terrible abuses now commonplace in daily news reports have been going on for a very long time ... Eliza’s story has now awakened us from our denial slumber to a new, horrific reality. The abuse of children.”

She says others speaking up has “finally given me the ability to speak out. It has been indescribably exhausting, bottling this up inside me for all of these years.”

Dushku alleges Kramer lured her to his room, put her on a bed and approaching her naked except for a towel, rubbed his body over hers.

When she confided to an adult female friend who then confronted him on the set, Dushku says she suffered broken ribs “in no small coincidence” in a stunt that went awry.