Years later, Olivia Munn is speaking up about a complaint she filed on the set of a movie, which she would not name.
The actress recently recounted the on-set incident that was “really not okay,” as she explained why she refused to take “a lot of money” in exchange for her silence about the behind-the-scenes moment.
“It was so traumatic that I had to file complaints with the studio,” she explained on Monica Lewinsky’s Reclaiming podcast. “But it got to this place where I was offered a lot of money. A lot of money — seven figures to accept I guess their apology and them taking acknowledgement of it. But it came along with an NDA.”
Munn continued, “And not that I would ever have talked about it, truly, because I just wanted to move past it all. That’s why I don’t want to talk about the specific things that happened in that situation but I said, ‘I’m not signing an NDA,’ and they said, ‘You have to,’ and I just felt that it was so wrong. And at this time, specifically, this was at the beginning of the #MeToo-Time’s Up. … This was, like, the reckoning, the Harvey Weinstein reckoning that began it all. This was that time period, and this was when people were targeting anyone who signed an NDA saying, ‘Oh, you only did it for the money,’ so I was afraid that my voice and speaking up would reverse any kind of validity to my voice, and I was concerned that the studio, in an effort to diminish my voice, would leak out that [she] had signed an NDA for money.
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Amid the height of the #MeToo movement in late 2017, Munn was one of six women to accuse Brett Ratner of sexual misconduct from her visit to the set of his 2004 film After the Sunset.
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