Meryl Streep's shocking confession: "I had to play dead and wait for the blows to stop"
The actress revealed the most terrible and harsh event of her life during her speech at the Awards Gala of the Committee to Protect American Journalists. According to her, on one occasion, a thug gave her a beating in which she had to play dead for the individual to stop.
"I had to play dead and wait until the blows stopped", confessed Meryl Streep (68) when recalling one of the most traumatic episodes that she has had to face throughout her profession.
Unfortunately, this was not the only time she experienced violence up close. The Oscar-winning actress also confessed that she saw how a man was abusing another person. "I went crazy and ran to him." Fortunately, on this occasion, the man fled, so she did not have to regret any misfortune.
In addition, during his emotional and powerful speech, Streep emphasized the importance of the medium and the difficulty that women have in reporting the abuse they suffer: "We recognize the special cocktail of poison and ridicule that is always tinged with sexual threat that is served to women, to any woman in any profession who stands up to speak the truth. "
To these statements are added the accusations that the interpreter made about the actor Dustin Hoffman, of whom she said that she harassed her 38 years ago in a play of which he was the director. "He came up to me and said, 'Hi, I'm Dustin,' he burped, and said, Hoffman. Then he put his hand on my chest," she confessed in an interview with The Times.
