Elliot Page Recalls Being ‘Groomed’ At Just 17 Years Old By Predatory Director, Sexually Abused By Crew Members

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[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content] Elliot Page claims he was “groomed” as a teenager. One week after the Juno actor’s tell-all memoir, Pageboy, was released, fans are still uncovering shocking truths from Elliot’s history in Hollywood — and the latest is that the actor apparently fell victim to groomers on set when he was just a teen. Related: Elliot Hooked Up With Juno Co-Star ‘All The Time’ While Filming In one section of the book, the X-Men: Days of Future Past actor wrote about a time as a teenager in Canada when a director made an unsettling gesture to the actor while dining “at Swan on Queen West,” according to Insider.

Elliot didn’t reveal the name of the director, but remembered exactly that as they dined, the director told him, “you have to make the move, I can’t,” before “stroking [Elliot’s] thigh under the table.” Eww what a creep.

It truly never ceases to amaze us hearing about how predatory some powerful figures in Hollywood are. Poor Elliot. Elsewhere in the book, in a chapter titled Leeches, the Inception star recalled other instances of inappropriate sexual encounters with adults when he was just a teen, remembering “on a project not long before” the encounter with the director, “a crew member had done the same.” Elliot wrote: Whoa, WTF!

That’s pretty insane. Mind you, Elliot wasn’t even 20 years old yet at the time! In a third shocking retelling, The Umbrella Academy star recalled a time while shooting 2005’s Hard Candy, when he was just 17, where he had sexual relations with an unnamed man from set who has since gone on to become a director: Elliot recalled after a wrap party for the film, the man drove him back to the Gaycation star’s apartment, where he guided Page to the bedroom with “his