He asked for a back rub, she claimed, leading to a pattern of increasingly inappropriate behavior.
Six to eight shows a week, she wrote.
I couldnt speak to him in the moment because I was on a live mic.
He kept it up and got more and more aggressive.
One night he actually started to stick his fingers inside me.
Night after night I went home and cried.
I withdrew and got depressed and did not have any good interpersonal relationships with the cast.
Representatives for Hoffman did not immediately respond to request for comment.
It just doesnt ring true, production stage manager Tom Kelly said.
This incident was captured in a photograph and was featured inPlayboymagazine with the caption, Reviving a dead Salesman.
It is not reflective of who I am, Hoffman said in a statement.
Subsequently, producerWendy Riss GatsiounistoldVarietythat Hoffman propositioned her inappropriately in 1991.
(Hoffman had no comment on Gatsiounis claims.)
I get no pleasure from having this conversation but you and I are not the victims here.
[…] I still dont know who this woman is.
I never met her.
If I met her, it was in concert with other people.
It was a long time ago, she said.
This is not the red badge of courage I have worn for 32 years.
I buried it deep.
I am a tough dame… now.
Women are overly sensitive to dirty jokes.
Toughen up, ladies, etc.
There is no denying I learned an enormous amount from him about acting.
He was generous in the many presents he gave us and the many parties he threw.
They are not mutually exclusive.
