Popular comedian and actress, Amanda Seales, has called out disgraced Music Boss, Russell Simmons who stepped down from his businesses on Friday after writer Jenny Lumet accused him of sexual harassment.
Taking to her Instagram page, the “Insecure” actress opened up about an inappropriate experience she encountered with Russell Simmons.
“While in a very important man’s office talking about working together, ‘Uh, have we ever f**ked?’” Seales is seen saying in an old video she posted. After saying she answered “no,” Seales claimed he responded, “Oh, right. Cause I would’ve remembered that, right?”
She also backed the old clip with a new one and revealed that the “important man” in her story was Simmons.
“You know how hard it was for me to say that,” she continued. “And he didn’t even assault me and I didn’t wanna say that. That’s how the game is f**ked up.”
In the caption to post, Seales urged other victims of sexual harassment and rape to ignore being scared of coming out, and expose their abusers.
‘PSA: For anyone who says, “Why’d they wait so long?” You wait because as a woman raised in a patriarchal, “Bros before Hoes”, sexist, “but what were you wearing” society you understand power dynamics and that even when there are witnesses to any level of sexual harassment/assault it will always be you who is questioned for incurring the offense. You wait because you know your vision is bigger than their indiscretion and refuse to let it derail you from your goals. You wait because you don’t even want to acknowledge the fuckery for longer than you have to when you know the odds are there will be no consequences, you’ll be dismissed, or worse defiled yet again and would rather get on with the positive things in your life. You wait because, especially when it’s a black man of prestige, you are conditioned to not speak defamatory truths for fear it will undermine their contributions to the community. Lastly, you wait, because you don’t even wanna believe it ya damn self. No matter how seemingly benign or intrusive, no one wants to endure this, particularly in professional settings. Yet, so many of us have so many of these stories and we come to operate like a clandestine anti-#creeplifes coalition of alerting others to, “watch out for so and so”. Let that be no more. It is not okay. It is not the culture. It is not your fault. Expose them. #igstorygems‘
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