Late Comedian Jerry Lewis Accused of Sexual Misconduct by 2 Women: ‘He Was All Over Me’
thewrap.comVanity Fair. The interviews with both women were conducted by Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick, the directors of “Allen v. Farrow,” in conjunction with Vanity Fair.
Lewis died in 2017 at the age of 91. Sharpe said in the documentary short that she was invited to Lewis’ dressing room to discuss a scene and the outfit she would wear in the film when she says, “Before I knew it, he was all over me.
He had grabbed me, he began to fondle me.”Sharpe, now 87, recalls telling him, “I don’t know what you think, but I don’t do this.” She says Lewis was furious at being rejected, and though she wanted to resign from the film, he told her “it’s too late” and she had already signed the contract.
She felt being locked into the project was a form of “punishment” and control over her. “No one was allowed to speak to me on the set or I was to be fired.
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