Los Angeles. The american actress Tippi Hedren claimed in a new memoir that Alfred Hitchcock sexually assault her and bullied her while they worked together in the 1960s, according to press reports.
the Hedren accused the director of sexual harassment on numerous previous occasions, particularly in interviews in the 2012 version of the HBO film The Girl, which recounts the alleged obsession of the filmmaker with her. But in “Tippi: A Memoir, published Tuesday, is the first time she speaks about what happened with the director.
the Hedren, plucked from obscurity by Hitchcock in his work of 1963, The Birds, argues that the filmmaker is obsessed with her shortly after the signing of a five-year contract. The director saw to it that other members of the cast are alejasen of it, wrote the actress, as reported by the New York Post and the Daily Mail, who accessed the memory.
According to Hedren, Hitchcock once pounced on her and tried to kiss her in the back of his limo, says the report of the press. In another incident, one day the director the he and asked to touch it.
Each time that she was alone, “was a way of expressing your obsession with me, as if I should reciprocate in some way,” he says. Hedren, whose daughter is actress Melanie Griffith, it also states that Hitchcock used to use it to your chauffeur to stalk, indicated by the Daily Mail.
Hitchcock and Hedren worked together in Marnie, a film based on the story of a cleptómana with mental health problems and sexual. Hedren said to be aware that there was a widespread belief that the scene in which a man forces his “girlfriend frigid, unattainable” to have sex with him, it was a personal fantasy of Hitchcock about it.
The british director, who died in 1980, expressed his love for the actress but was increasing in aggressiveness as she marked away, according to an advance on the day.
“Never brindé details on this, and I shall not do it. I’ll just say that suddenly grabbed me and put his hands on me,” she said. “It was sexual, it was wrong, and it was ugly,” he said, and added that not said nothing about these incidents at the time because “the sexual harassment and harassment in general were terms that did not exist,” reported the Post. Hitchcock spent the following years frustrated by the resistance of the actress and allegedly warned that he was going to ruin his career.
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