“Why speak out now?” she asked on Facebook. “I remember she might have gotten a little bruised” – from hanging by a harness and wires during the Harrier Jet scene – “but I don’t think she broke any ribs.” Kramer also insisted that he never intentionally hurt her on the film. My life was literally in his hands: he hung me in the open air, from a tower crane, atop an office tower, 25+ stories high.” On a daily basis he rigged wires and harnesses on my 12 year old body. To be clear, over the course of those months rehearsing and filming True Lies, it was Joel Kramer who was responsible for my safety on a film that at the time broke new ground for action films. With broken ribs, I spent the evening in the hospital. I remember how Joel Kramer grew cold with me in the ensuing weeks, how everything felt different on the set.Īnd I remember how soon-after, when my tough adult female friend (in whom I had confided my terrible secret on the condition of a trade that she let me drive her car around the Hollywood Hills) came out to the set to visit and face him, later that very same day, by no small coincidence, I was injured from a stunt-gone-wrong on the Harrier jet. “I remember how afterwards, the taxi driver stared at me in the rear view mirror when Joel Kramer put me on his lap in the backseat and clutched me and grew aroused again and how my eyes never left the driver’s eyes during that long ride over a Miami bridge, back to my hotel and parent. When he was ‘finished,’ he suggested, ‘I think we should be careful…’ he meant. He spoke these words: ‘You’re not going to sleep on me now sweetie, stop pretending you’re sleeping,’ as he rubbed harder and faster against my catatonic body. I remember how he laid me down on the bed, wrapped me with his gigantic writhing body, and rubbed all over me. I remember what I was wearing (my favorite white denim shorts, thankfully, secured enough for me to keep on). I remember vividly how he methodically drew the shades and turned down the lights how he cranked up the air-conditioning to what felt like freezing levels, where exactly he placed me on one of the two hotel room beds, what movie he put on the television (Coneheads) how he disappeared in the bathroom and emerged, naked, bearing nothing but a small hand towel held flimsy at his mid-section. “I remember, so clearly 25 years later, how Joel Kramer made me feel special, how he methodically built my and my parents’ trust, for months grooming me exactly how he lured me to his Miami hotel room with a promise to my parent that he would take me for a swim at the stunt crew’s hotel pool and for my first sushi meal thereafter. No one seemed ready to confront this taboo subject then, nor was I.”ĭushku goes on to detail the alleged assault in his hotel room, but notes that she was wearing shorts and that there was no sexual penetration. At the time, I shared what happened to me with my parents, two adult friends and one of my older brothers. “Ever since, I have struggled with how and when to disclose this, if ever. I guess I’ll have to get a lawyer and file a lawsuit against her for defamation and slander.”ĭushku’s accusation: “When I was 12 years old, while filming True Lies, I was sexually molested by Joel Kramer, one of Hollywood’s leading stunt coordinators,” she wrote. How does a guy like me fight against something like this? I don’t know what to do. I think she’s making this up in her imagination. “These are outlandish, manipulated lies,” Kramer told Deadline. “Whereas he was supposed to be my protector, he was my abuser,” the Bull actress wrote in a lengthy Facebook posting. She also claims that after Kramer was confronted by an adult she’d confided in, he intentionally injured her, breaking her ribs, in a stunt that went wrong during filming of the film’s Harrier Jet scene. Dushku, the former Buffy The Vampire and Dollhouse actress, starred as the daughter of the characters played by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis, and Kramer, who has long been Schwarzenegger personal stunt double, was the film’s stunt coordinator. UPDATE with statements from Dushku’s mother, brother Actress Eliza Dushku has accused famed stunt coordinator Joel Kramer of sexually molesting her when she was 12 years old during filming of True Lies.
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