Emily Ratajkowski reported that Robin Thicke sexually harassed her in the video for "Blurred Lines"
Her model recounts in her new book that the singer groped her on the recording set in 2013
Emily Ratajkowski denounced that she was sexually harassed by Robin Thicke during the filming of the video clip for "Blurred Lines", the hit song she recorded with Pharrell Williams.
The model recounts her unpleasant moment in her new book "My Body," due out next month. Ratajkowski reveals that the singer jumped on her and groped her during the recording of the video clip in which she appeared topless. "Suddenly, out of nowhere, I felt the coldness and surprise of a stranger's hands squeezing my bare breasts from behind," she recalls.
After immediately turning away from her and looking up, the model would verify that the singer was drunk. Instinctively I turned away and looked back at Robin Thicke. He smirked and staggered back, his eyes hidden behind his sunglasses. "
Although at the beginning of the recording Ratajkowski affirmed to be comfortable, she expressed that what the artist did to her made her feel “naked for the first time that day”, also affirming that she did not react “as she should have done”.
I pushed my chin forward and shrugged, avoiding eye contact, feeling the heat of humiliation pump through my body. I didn't react, not really, not like I should have, ”said the 30-year-old model.
And she pointed out that the director of the video clip Diane Martel witnessed the situation. At that time, which took place in 2013, Ratajkowski indicated that Martel yelled at the artist: "What the fuck are you doing?" Then he approached her to ask if he was okay.
Diane Martel confirmed what happened to the Sunday Times she claimed that she witnessed the moment of harassment and that she yelled at the artist to stop. "I remember the moment when she grabbed his breasts," she said. "One in each hand. He was behind her. I yelled in my very aggressive Brooklyn voice, "What the hell are you doing ?!" Filming is over !! ”.
After this reaction, Martel said that Thicke apologized "timidly".
At the time of filming this video clip, Thicke was married to Paula Patton, with whom he has an 11-year-old son. In the divorce process, she denounced him for domestic violence and abuse, specifically for hitting and insulting her. She also revealed that his ex was addicted to cocaine.
In 2014, the singer began a relationship with April Love Geary, with whom he had three children of her.
On her side, the model married in 2018 with producer Sebastian Bear-McClard and in March 2021 they had her first child, Sylvester Apollo Bear.
Unfortunately for Ratajkowski, it would not be an isolated episode, since in September 2020 he would report a sexual attack, in this case through an essay written in The Cut, by photographer Jonathan Leder in May 2012 during a photo shoot. photos.
The model said that she initially posed in lingerie and then nude. During production, the photographer offered him red wine. At one point, the makeup artist who was present at the session retired to her room. Ratajkowski said she felt wide awake, but she was "very, very drunk." She and Leder were huddled under a blanket on the couch when he started asking her about her boyfriends and watched as she rubbed her feet to keep them warm.
She “she was cold, shivering and curled up under a blanket. Jonathan and I were on her couch, and she felt the rough texture of her jeans on my bare legs, ”she recounted, adding that at that moment she was talking about her love past. And she indicated that she does not recall kissing him, and memories of what happened next are "a bit blurry." However, she expressed: "I do remember that her fingers were suddenly inside me."
The model said that she took her wrist tightly and withdrew it, causing him to stand up abruptly and leave the scene. “Most of what came next was blurry, except for the sentiment. I don't remember kissing him, but I do remember that his fingers were suddenly inside me, "she stated. “Stronger and stronger and pushing and shoving like no one has touched me before or since. It really hurt a lot. I instinctively brought my hand to his wrist and pulled his fingers away from me forcefully. I didn't say a word. She stood up abruptly and slipped silently down the stairs into the darkness. "
Ratajkowski wrote that she then went to bed and took a train to her house the next morning.
The photographer insisted that Ratajkowski's claims were “totally false”: “I feel bad for her because she is at a point in her career where she has to resort to tactics like this to gain press and publicity. It is shameful".
