Actor’s shock announcement: ‘I was groped too’

IN the wake of many female stars and employees coming forward about Harvey Weinstein‘s alleged sexual assaults and rapes, actor Terry Crews has a story of his own experience with sexual assault in Hollywood.

The Brooklyn Nine-Nine star, 49, shared his story on social media because he wanted to let followers know that Weinstein “is not the only perpetrator.”

“This whole thing with Harvey Weinstein is giving me PTSD. Why? Because this kind of thing happened to ME…” Crews tweeted Tuesday.

“My wife n I were at a Hollywood function last year n a high level Hollywood executive came over 2 me and groped my privates.”

Crews continued, “Jumping back I said What are you doing?! My wife saw everything n we looked at him like he was crazy. He just grinned like a jerk.”

The Expendables star said he didn’t “kick his ass” because he thought of how the media would spin the story.

“’240 lbs. Black Man stomps out Hollywood Honcho’ would be the headline the next day,” Crews shared, noting that he wouldn’t have been able to read it because he “would have been in jail.” Instead, he and his wife left the party.

Crews talked to other people who had worked with the unnamed executive, and the next day the perpetrator apologized to Crews but “never really explained why he did what he did.” Crews said he didn’t go public with his experience because he didn’t want to be “ostracized” from the business, which he described as something that would be “par 4 the course when the predator has power n influence.”

“I let it go. And I understand why many women who this happens to let it go,” he tweeted. “Who’s going 2 believe you? ( few) What r the repercussions?(many) Do u want 2 work again? (Yes) R you prepared 2b ostracized?(No).”

Crews wrote he hoped his story would “deter a predator and encourage someone who feels hopeless.”

This story originally appeared in the New York Post and is republished with permission.