Jenny Mollen Reveals She Was Sexually Assaulted During Massage In 2020: 'I Felt Somehow Complicit'
01.05.2023 - 19:29
/ perezhilton.com
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Jenny Mollen is opening up about the sexual assault she experienced at the hands of a massage therapist.
In a new essay published to Substack, the author, who shares two children with husband Jason Biggs, pulled back the curtain on a traumatic encounter she experienced at spa three years ago in New York City. She began:
In a cruel twist of irony, the day was February 25, 2020 — as she notes, it was the very day Harvey Weinstein was first convicted on rape charges. If anything this could have been celebratory. She added:
However, that veil of safety would soon be yanked away.
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She recalled that after filling out “a short intake form,” she was introduced to her massage therapist, who she noted had “glowing reviews” from staff members and friends. As he escorted her to the massage room, he assured her:
When alone in the room, Jenny stripped away her clothing — but notably left on her underwear — and got under the sheet on the massage table. She then called out to the masseur that she was “ready” to begin. Right away, her massage began to feel different than his promising message beforehand:
However, the Angel alum went with it as she was confident in the safety of the “female founded spa”:
The 43-year-old revealed the massage didn’t remain harmless for long:
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Things just continued to get worse and worse:
Wow. The wording. That is not a massage. Without consent, that is a sexual assault.
Jenny said that at that point she was “frozen in shock,” adding, “I thought I was hallucinating.”
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