- Actor Brendan Fraser said in a recent interview with GQ that he was groped in 2003 by Philip Berk, a former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press.
- Fraser said that the incident made him "retreat" from the Hollywood spotlight.
- Berk, who previously described the incident in a memoir as being done in jest, told GQ that Fraser's version of the incident was a "total fabrication." He also admitted to writing an "apology" letter to Fraser.
- The HFPA said on Friday that it was "previously unaware" of the incident as Fraser alleged it, and that it is currently investigating the matter.
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Brendan Fraser says he was groped by a Hollywood executive and that it made him 'retreat' from his acting career
Brendan Fraser told GQ that his groping by a former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made him "retreat" from the Hollywood spotlight.
Actor Brendan Fraser said in a recent interview with GQ that he was groped by a former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Philip Berk, after an HFPA luncheon in 2003. Fraser said that the incident played a part in his decision to "retreat" from the Hollywood spotlight.
Fraser, who starred in a number of leading roles in successful movies throughout the 1990s, including "The Mummy," has been largely absent from the same leading film roles since the early 2000s.
The 49-year-old actor told GQ that the incident was one of the sources of his career's standstill. Fraser recounted the incident in detail, which GQ reported that Berk had previously described in a memoir as being done in jest.
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