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Just after Ben Affleck’s apologised for groping One Tree Hill star, Hilarie Burton on camera, another video has surfaced of him asking a woman to bare her breasts for the camera in an interview.
A video from 2004 shows the Oscar winning actor fondling a reporter for Montreal’s entertainment news show Box Office, Anne-Marie Losique.
“They would like it better if you did this show topless, the station, wouldn’t they? You usually show a lot more cleavage than this. What’s the story? Why are you covering it up today?” Ben Affleck can be seen saying in the video.
In the video, he also seen mocking the differently abled.
While Burton said that she laughed even though she was uncomfortable with the encounter, Losique has said that interviewing Affleck has been “very easy” and speaking about her audience in Montreal, she said, “We are more open about sexually explicit jokes”.
“It’s something that started a long time ago. Now I’m always on his lap. I don’t have to prepare anything. It’s very easy. But I never get to ask him any questions. Never in five years,” said Losique about her interviews with Affleck.
“Humor is nice when it’s uncomfortable,” she added. “Sometimes it crosses the PC line. As long as the intent is not to hurt anybody.”
Ben Affleck was engaged to Jennifer Lopez in 2004 when the interview took place. According to Losique, the actor never approached her off-camera.
After a Twitter user spoke about groping Hilarie Burton, Ben Affleck apologised for his actions.
Earlier, Affleck took to Twitter to slam Hollywood executive, Weinstein’s actions and said they made him “sick”. But someone on Twitter pointed out an incident where he groped fellow actor, Hilarie Burton on MTV Total Request Live (TRL) years ago.
Burton chimed in saying she remembered the experience and had to laugh so she didn’t cry. “I was a kid,” she says.
Here’s Ben Affleck’s full statement condemning Weinstein’s history of sexual abuse on social media.
Ben and Hilarie on TRL:
One word. Disgusting.
(With inputs from Variety)
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