PASADENA, CALIF—Eliza Dushku, star of TV’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dollhouse and Angel, has recounted horrific episodes where she claims she was sexually abused on the set of Canadian director James Cameron’s True Lies.The film, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a secret agent and Jamie Lee Curtis as his wife, with Dushku as their daughter, was made in 1994 when the actress was 12 years old.In a detailed post on her Facebook page on Saturday, Dushku accuses Joel Kramer, the stunt co-ordinator, of multiple sexual assaults while working on the set. “I remember vividly how he methodically drew the shades and turned down the lights; how he cranked up the air-conditioning to what felt like freezing levels, where exactly he placed me on one of the two hotel room beds, what movie he put on the television (Coneheads); how he disappeared in the bathroom and emerged, naked, bearing nothing but a small hand towel,” Dushku said. “I remember how he laid me down on the bed, wrapped me with his gigantic writhing body, and rubbed all over me. He spoke these words: “You’re not going to sleep on me now sweetie, stop pretending you’re sleeping,” as he rubbed harder and faster against my catatonic body.”Cameron, the director of Avatar and Titanic, the top two biggest grossing movies of all time, was at the Television Critics Association convention in Los Angeles to promote his new documentary series on science fiction for AMC network. He arrived on stage just hours after hearing about the painful allegations. Kramer has denied the allegations in a statement to Variety, saying they were “absolutely not true.”“Had I known about it, there would have been no mercy. And now, especially that I have daughters, there would really be no mercy now,” Cameron said. “It’s just heartbreaking that it happened to her. I mean, I know the other party and not well. He hasn’t worked for me sin ...
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