Dozens of actors and assistants have since come forward, including Angelina Jolie, Lupita Nyong’o and Léa Seydoux. The Instagram post, since deleted, carried the #MeToo social media hashtag spawned by the recent outpouring of sexual assault and sexual harassment accusations leveled against former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. Lind said the former first lady “rolled her eyes as if to say, ’not again’”. And then, all the while being photographed, touched me again.” He touched me from behind from his wheelchair with his wife Barbara Bush by his side,” Lind wrote. Lind’s allegation first appeared in an Instagram post in which the actor said that seeing photos of Bush, 93, shaking hands with Barack Obama during an appearance of all five living former presidents at Saturday’s hurricane fund-raising benefit reminded her of her own meeting with the president three years earlier, when, according to her, “he sexually assaulted me while I was posing for a similar photo”.įive former US presidents attend hurricane benefit - video Grolnick said others in the room “laughed politely and out of discomfort”, while Barbara Bush “said something along the lines of, ‘He’s going to get himself put into jail!’ to which we laughed harder”. “He reached his right hand around to my behind, and as we smiled for the photo he asked the group, ‘Do you want to know who my favorite magician is?’ As I felt his hand dig into my flesh, he said, ‘David Cop-a-Feel!’” Meanwhile a second woman, actor Jordana Grolnick, told Deadspin a similar story.įollowing a performance of The Hunchback of Notre Dame that Bush had attended in Maine, “We all circled around him and Barbara for a photo, and I was right next to him,” she told the website. “To anyone he has offended, President Bush apologizes most sincerely.” Some have seen it as innocent others clearly view it as inappropriate,” McGrath wrote. “To try to put people at ease, the president routinely tells the same joke – and on occasion, he has patted women’s rears in what he intended to be a good-natured manner. A spokesman for Bush, who is 93, said then: “President Bush would never – under any circumstance – intentionally cause anyone distress, and he most sincerely apologizes if his attempt at humour offended Ms Lind.”īut Bush’s spokesman Jim McGrath, issued a further statement on Wednesday that sought to explain the former president’s behavior as an attempt to make light of social awkwardness posed by his own physical disability during photo sessions.Ĭonfined to a wheelchair, as Bush has been for about the past five years, “his arm falls on the lower waist of people with whom he takes pictures”, McGrath said.
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