Kate Beckinsale says she has been 'assaulted' and 'felt up' on film sets

Kate Beckinsale, the British star of films such as Love & Friendship, Canary Black and the Underworld series, has posted a video on social media in response to Blake Lively's legal battle with Justin Baldoni, the director of It Ends with Us.

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Beckinsale says she has been "assaulted" and "felt up" on film sets, and was insulted and called "a cunt" and "a bitch" when she complained.

Beckinsale says that while she has never met Lively or Baldoni, she has been "following the situation", and that it highlights "this machine that goes into effect when a woman complains about something legitimately offensive, upsetting, harmful, whatever, in this industry".

In the video, Beckinsale says she has "47 million stories" like this.

"At the age of 18, [I was] felt up by somebody that I really trusted on a crew. Went to the lead actress, who's known for being a supporter of women, and said this has happened and was told, 'No, it didn't'. I went to another actress, crying, and said I'd just been assaulted by this man and again told, 'No, you haven't been'."