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Worst tales still untold, Susan says

- CTRESS SUSAN SARANDON

Asays there are plenty more Hollywood predators out there that we haven’t heard about yet — including one who drugs victims. The “Thelma & Louise” star (inset) told Confidenti­al that a friend of hers who has been in the news for coming out about an abuser divulged that she was also taken advantage of by another Hollywood insider, but doesn’t have the resilience to come forward again.

“Some of the women who have come forward have had other men, equally severe and cannot go through it again,” Sarandon divulged. “I know one who told me about a drugging situation and I said, ‘Are you going to come forward? Are you going to do something?’ And she said she’s just so worn out. Because this woman has already had to come forward with a lot...She said, ‘I just don’t have the strength to come forward.’”

“Everybody did give Harvey (Weinstein) a pass for the longest time and said, ‘Well that’s just Harvey,’” Sarandon said.

“I really am furious with the people that enabled, that delivered the girls because I know there were agents and managers that didn’t allow people to go to a hotel room for an interview or went with them,” she added.

The mother of three praises journalist Ronan Farrow, who’s written several damning accounts about Weinstein for The New Yorker. “He did thorough and long-term investigat­ion and was rejected when he presented it to NBC for other reasons we can go into or not, and persisted with this informatio­n to take it somewhere where finally it came out,” she noted. “He’s the one who assembled and continues to listen.”

Sarandon, 71, is currently promoting “Bombshell,” a documentar­y about screen siren Hedy Lamarr, who was not only dubbed “the most beautiful woman in film” but was also an inventor who helped develop a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes during World War II.

Queens-born Sarandon said that seeing how cruel the Hollywood system was to Lamarr was fascinatin­g.

“I was preparing (to play) Bette Davis (in the FX series “Feud”), who also had similar problems with the studio and faced similar problems as she got older, and it’s certainly familiar grounds still for me,” she laughs.

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