Ashley Judd Calls Out Her Hollywood Abuser

This week's issue of Variety features five covers and the courageous confessions of Ashley Judd.

ShutterstockAshleyJuddJaneFondaWe have not read the rest of this week’s “Power of Women” Variety issue, but we have a hard time imagining that it contains anything more powerful than Ashley Judd’s conversation with New York film editor Ramin Setoodeh.

Judd has never been afraid to speak her mind. But it has taken until now for her to feel comfortable enough to publicly reveal a sickening episode in Hollywood in the late 1990s, which occurred in a hotel room and involved a mogul trying to get her to watch him shower:

“I was making Kiss the Girls at the time, and here I was, a declared feminist.

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