Paul Haggis claims he has been left “scared” and “humiliated” by “terrible false allegations” of s.e.xual assault. The Oscar-winning filmmaker is being sued by Haleigh Breest, who has alleged he raped her in 2013. Four anonymous women have testified in support of his accuser, claiming they were also subjected to similar ordeals by the director.
In his second day of testimony in the civil case on Thursday, he said: “I’m scared because I don’t know why women or anyone would lie about things like this, make up or twist the truth. I don’t know. To see my daughters sitting in the courtroom right now, my son and my family, I’m humiliated by these false allegations.”
One woman testified that Haggis had raped her in the Toronto production office of his TV show “Due South” in 1996, but the filmmaker argued he was already back in Los Angeles then.
A second female claimed she fled Haggis’s Santa Monica film production headquarters in 2008 after he told her: “I want to be inside you.”
The “Crash” director insisted he actually said, “I want to sit beside you” and his only mistake had been “oversharing” about his personal life and self-image before moving to sit closer.
.He told the court he had walked the woman out to her car, where they said a friendly goodbye, while she testified they had stayed in touch and she sought his help with a US work visa.”
The third woman to give evidence accused the director of luring her back to his hotel suite in Alberta in 2008 with the false promise of an after-party following a film and TV festival.
She claimed he tried to kiss her before following her out of the building and groping her breasts by a taxi stand.
Source: IOL
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