“Boy Meets World” Star Matthew Lawrence’s Disturbing Story About Being Dropped By His Talent Agency After He Refused To Strip Naked For A Movie Director In A Hotel Room Has Resurfaced Online

This nonfiction mentions intersexual assault. 

People are remembering Matthew Lawrence’s profoundly disturbing acquisition arsenic a young actor, with the present 46-year-old prima first opening up successful 2023 astir being dropped by his endowment bureau aft helium refused to portion bare for a manager successful a edifice room.

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For reference, Matthew was conscionable 4 years aged erstwhile helium landed his archetypal relation arsenic Danny Carrington successful Dynasty backmost successful the ‘80s:

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Other notable roles see Robin Williams’s son, Chris, successful Mrs. Doubtfire, and Shawn’s brother, Jack, successful Boy Meets World:

Matthew’s brothers, Andrew and Joey, were besides kid stars, and together, the trio appeared successful the ’90s TV bid Brotherly Love:

And successful February 2023, they launched a podcast with the aforesaid name, successful which they look backmost connected their careers together.

In April 2023, Matthew opened up astir a peculiarly troubling clip successful his vocation arsenic helium and his brothers reflected connected chap histrion Terry Crews' allegation that he was sexually assaulted by high-powered endowment cause Adam Venit.

If you request reminding, backmost successful 2017, Terry took to his X relationship to reveal that the Harvey Weinstein exposé was giving him “PTSD” due to the fact that a akin happening had happened to him. He added: “My woman n I were astatine a Hollywood relation past twelvemonth n a precocious level Hollywood enforcement came implicit 2 maine and groped my privates.”

“Jumping backmost I said What are you doing?! My woman saw everything n we looked astatine him similar helium was crazy. He conscionable grinned similar a jerk,” Terry went on. He added that helium wanted to “kick his ass close then,” but didn’t due to the fact that helium knew however it mightiness “appear” to different people.

Instead, Terry and his woman near the event, and Terry spent the adjacent time talking to everyone helium knew who worked with the antheral “about what happened.” The time aft that, the antheral called Terry to apologize, but “never truly explained wherefore helium did what helium did.”

The histrion yet decided not to instrumentality things further due to the fact that helium feared being “ostracized” arsenic the predator had “power” and “influence.” He tweeted: “I fto it go. And I recognize wherefore galore women who this happens to fto it go.”

“Who’s going 2 judge you? (few) What r the repercussions?(many) Do u privation 2 enactment again? (Yes) R you prepared 2b ostracized? (No),” Terry continued. He went connected to warn: “Harvey Weinstein is not the lone perpetrator.”

The pursuing year, Terry named his alleged assaulter during an quality connected Good Morning America, wherever helium said: "Back successful February 2016, I was assaulted by Adam Venit, who is caput of the question representation section astatine William Morris Endeavor, 1 of the biggest agencies successful the world, period… He's connected to astir apt everyone I cognize successful the business... I did not cognize this man. I person ne'er had a speech with him, ever."

"He comes implicit to me, I instrumentality my manus out, and helium virtually takes his manus and puts it and squeezes my genitals," Terry told GMA. "I leap backmost like: 'Hey, hey,’ and he's inactive sticking his lingua retired and each this stuff, and I go: 'Dude, what are you doing? What are you doing?' And past helium comes backmost again. He conscionable won't stop."

Terry filed a civilian suit against Adam successful January 2018, and successful September that aforesaid year, they reached a settlement, and the suit was dismissed. Adam besides near his relation astatine the WME endowment agency.

During their podcast episode, Matthew and his brothers praised Terry for speaking openly astir his experience, with Matthew adding: “It’s a existent thing, the casting couch, we each cognize it existed.”

“When it comes to Terry Crews, helium was groped and utilized arsenic a portion of nutrient by idiosyncratic successful powerfulness supra him wrong the industry,” helium went on. “Not a batch of guys, successful my opinion, person travel retired and talked astir this successful the manufacture — determination is besides this aforesaid situation. Granted, I’d accidental it’s astir apt a 3rd of what women spell through, the magnitude of men who spell done this, whether it’s different pistillate oregon different antheral successful power.”

“There’s been galore times successful my beingness wherever I’ve been propositioned to get a immense role,” Matthew past shared. “I’ve mislaid my bureau due to the fact that I went to the edifice country — which I can’t judge they would nonstop maine to — of a precise prominent, Oscar-winning director, who showed up successful his robe, asked maine to instrumentality my apparel off, and said helium needed to instrumentality polaroids of me. And then, if I did X, Y, and Z, I would beryllium the adjacent ‘Marvel’ character.”

For reference, Matthew said “Marvel” successful aerial quotes, suggesting that helium was lone utilizing this arsenic an illustration and that the relation wasn’t needfully related to Marvel. He past revealed: “I didn’t bash that, and my bureau fired maine due to the fact that I near this director’s room.”

“A batch of my different antheral friends person gone done [this] with some men and women successful the industry,” Matthew past said. “But there’s a treble standard, and this is wherever I bring successful Terry Crews. Terry Crews comes retired and says it, and radical are laughing astatine him, radical don’t enactment him… I deliberation our nine is little acceptable to perceive that concern going connected with men than they are with women, actually.”

Matthew’s quotes resurfaced connected X earlier this week and person instantly gone viral, with galore users speedy to explicit their fearfulness astatine conscionable however prevalent this benignant of maltreatment of powerfulness appears to beryllium successful the industry. One idiosyncratic wrote: “It irritates maine truthful overmuch conscionable however overmuch this goes connected the amusement manufacture and for however long... we've heard stories present and determination but lone present is crap REALLY starting to deed the instrumentality and the nationalist are asking for answers. So galore radical abused for DECADES.... DECADES.”

“There indispensable beryllium truthful galore stories similar this that we’ll ne'er perceive due to the fact that men are conditioned to support this crap repressed,” idiosyncratic other claimed, portion 1 much added: “watching truthful galore of the actors one grew up loving travel retired with stories similar this is much shocking to maine than it should be.”

Another responded to tweets criticizing Matthew for not naming the manager by writing: “to everyone who keeps saying ‘name names’, look astatine ALL of the crap happening with the Epstein files!! You each privation radical to travel forward, but erstwhile they do, either 1. you request much impervious 2. you don’t judge them erstwhile they do, oregon 3. they extremity up dead.”

Matthew has not commented immoderate further connected his acquisition successful the years since this podcast occurrence aired, and helium has not revealed the director's identity.

If you oregon idiosyncratic you cognize has experienced intersexual assault, you tin telephone the National Sexual Assault Hotline astatine 1-800-656-HOPE, which routes the caller to their nearest intersexual battle work provider. You tin besides hunt for your section halfway here.