“Clearly something major was going on in Hollywood. It was all organized. There are a lot of vipers in this industry, people who only have their own interests in mind,” said Wood.
“There is darkness in the underbelly. What bums me about these situations is that the victims can’t speak as loudly as the people in power. That’s the tragedy of attempting to reveal what is happening to innocent people: they can be squashed, but their lives have been irreparably damaged.”
“You all grew up with Savile ... it must have been devastating,” he also said, referring to the Jimmy Savile scandal that rocked the U.K.
The Sunday Times also interviewed Anne Henry, co-founder of the BizParentz Foundation, an organization to protect child actors.
“We estimate that about 75 percent of the child actors who ‘went off the rails’ suffered earlier abuse. Drug addiction, alcoholism, suicide attempts, wandering through life without a purpose—they can all be symptoms,” she said.
Henry estimates that Hollywood is “currently sheltering about 100 active abusers.”
Allegations against top-level figures in Hollywood have ramped up in recent years. A documentary from Amy Berg, “An Open Secret,” said there were similar levels of collusion over child abuse in the movie industry.
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