{"id":13212,"date":"2017-11-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/gossip-girl-star-westwick-accused-rape\/"},"modified":"2017-11-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T00:00:00","slug":"gossip-girl-star-westwick-accused-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/gossip-girl-star-westwick-accused-rape\/","title":{"rendered":"Gossip Girl star, Ed Westwick accused of rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WARNING: Confronting content<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Gossip Girl<\/em> star, Ed Westwick (who played the role of Chuck Bass) has been accused of rape by actress Kristina Cohen.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kristina Cohen Facebook\" title=\"ENTERTAINMENT\" height=\"960\" width=\"960\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%;\" class=\"media-element file-media-original nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/10494804_10202878688944626_3334691773795357181_n.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cohen, who has held roles in series <em>Californication<\/em> and <em>The Middle<\/em>, shared a confronting statement to Facebook alleging that 30-year-old Westwick assaulted her three years ago.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She wrote that while <em>\u201cscared as hell to share this publicly\u201d<\/em> she was moved to share by the <a href=\"\/entertainment\/clone-house-cards-cancelled-following-allegations-against-kevin-spacey\"><em>\u201coutpouring of stories\u201d<\/em> by sexual assault victims<\/a> in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen alleges that she was introduced to Westwick by her partner and while the pair were at the actor\u2019s home, he suggested they <em>\u201cshould all f***\u201d<\/em>, promoting her to want to leave.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201c\u2026the producer didn\u2019t want to make Ed feel awkward by leaving. Ed insisted we stay for dinner. I said I was tired and wanted to leave, trying to get out of what was already an uncomfortable situation. Ed suggested I nap in the guest bedroom,\u201d she wrote.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSo I went and laid down in the guest room where I eventually fell asleep, I was woken up abruptly by Ed on top of me, his fingers entering my body. I told him to stop, but he was strong. I fought him off as hard as I could but he grabbed my <\/em><em>face in<\/em><em> his hands, shaking me, telling me he wanted to f*** me. I was paralyzed, terrified. I couldn\u2019t speak, I could no longer move. He held me down and raped me.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fkristina.kruz.5%2Fposts%2F10211729772336179&#038;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"294\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n<p>Westwick has responded to the claims, stating that he has never met Cohen.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xYWvKkeXO7\">pic.twitter.com\/xYWvKkeXO7<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ed Westwick (@EdWestwick) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EdWestwick\/status\/927940546382913536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<p><strong>If you or someone you know is being sexually abused there is help out there. Contact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeline.org.au\/\">Lifeline<\/a> on 13 11 14 or 1800 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1800respect.org.au\/\">RESPECT<\/a> on 1800 737 732.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Image:&nbsp;Amanda Edwards\/WireImage, Facebook<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WARNING: Confronting content Gossip Girl star, Ed Westwick (who played the role of Chuck Bass) has been accused of rape by actress Kristina Cohen.&nbsp; Cohen, who has held roles in series Californication and The Middle, shared a confronting statement to Facebook alleging that 30-year-old Westwick assaulted her three years ago.&nbsp; She wrote that while \u201cscared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":7660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-13212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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