Sarah Jessica Parker Reveals That a ‘Big Movie Star’ Sexually Harassed Her on Sex and the City Set

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Actress Sarah Jessica Parker attends the 39th Annual Muse Awards at The New York Hilton Midtown on December 13, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

Sarah Jessica Parker has revealed she reported a โ€œbig movie starโ€ for โ€œbehaving inappropriatelyโ€ with her early in her career.

The Sex and the City star did not specify what project she was working on at the time.

Speaking on NPRโ€™s Fresh Air radio program, Parker recalled how in the months after MeToo became a global conversation, she began โ€œrecognizing countless experiences of men behaving poorly, inappropriatelyโ€ throughout her working life.

Parker explained how she would โ€œpush it awayโ€ at the time and brush the behavior off so she could continue working.

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Actress Sarah Jessica Parker attends the 39th Annual Muse Awards at The New York Hilton Midtown on December 13, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

โ€œTo be honest, I donโ€™t know why I either wasnโ€™t courageous or more destroyed by some of the things that I was privy to, that I was on the receiving end of,โ€ she said.

She explained, โ€œI mean, I had every right to say, โ€˜This is inappropriate.โ€™ I could have felt safe in going to a superior. And, in fact, I will say, when there was a situation with somebody and I did go to my agent, because I felt I was no longer able to convey how uncomfortable this was making me, how inappropriate it was โ€ฆ within hours everything had changed. He said to them, โ€˜If this continues, I have sent her a ticket, a one-way ticket out of this city [where she was shooting] and she will not be returning.'โ€

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Actress Sarah Jessica Parker attends the 39th Annual Muse Awards at The New York Hilton Midtown on December 13, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

Though she didnโ€™t identify the actor, she noted, โ€œThe nature of the person who I felt was really the instigator โ€” this was a grown man, a very big movie star and, you know, he was baked โ€” meaning his personality, it was cooked. He was a formed person and that wasnโ€™t going to change. But I felt certainly better and safer, like I could finish what I had agreed to do.โ€

She says that following the experience, things got better on set, though they werenโ€™t great.

Still, she says, โ€œI didnโ€™t have to listen to jokes about me or my figure or what people thought they could talk me into doing,โ€ she said. โ€œAll these men. All these men. That stopped.โ€

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Actress Sarah Jessica Parker attends the 39th Annual Muse Awards at The New York Hilton Midtown on December 13, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images)