Blake Lively reveals she was sexually harassed by a makeup artist

Blake Lively has opened up about a traumatic experience she had early in her career.

The 30-year-old actress revealed her “terrifying” experience with sexual harassment at the hands of a makeup artist.

“He was saying things inappropriately, insisting on putting my lipstick on with his finger,” she told the Los Angeles Times this week.

“I was sleeping one night on location and I woke up and he was filming me,” she continued, “I was clothed, but it was a very voyeuristic, terrifying thing to do.”

Horrifyingly she told producers about the issue but nothing happened after she spoke out. And what's worse - they ended up telling her off about her dog defecating behind a toilet in her dressing room.

The actress said producers told her: “‘This is very serious and we can’t have this happen again.'”

Thankfully Blake took her sexual harassment complaints to a lawyer, which opened up an investigation and the makeup artist was removed from the project.

Despite his removal, Lively said it doesn’t prevent him from working in the industry.

“Our unit production manager wrote him a letter of recommendation because nobody wanted there to be bad blood,” Lively said.

Her story of sexual harassment comes as Hollywood women come forward about their experiences with Harvey Weinstein.

Blake hadn't had a similar experience, but told The Hollywood Reporter earlier this week: “That was never my experience with Harvey in any way whatsoever, and I think that if people heard these stories… I do believe in humanity enough to think that this wouldn’t have just continued. I never heard any stories like this — I never heard anything specific — but it’s devastating to hear.”

She continued, “It’s important that women are furious right now. It’s important that there is an uprising. It’s important that we don’t stand for this and that we don’t focus on one or two or three or four stories, it’s important that we focus on humanity in general and say, ‘That is unacceptable.'”

ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qLjApqauqp2WtKLGyKecZ5ufY8Kse8Crq6KbnJp8o7jApJxmpJmrsq3FjKycsa2Robm6eceaqZqro5qxbq7YZphmpZGgsra8jJqpraGjqQ%3D%3D