Emily Ratajkowski reveals Robin Thicke groped her breasts
Updated | By Tamlyn Canham
“Suddenly, out of nowhere, I felt the coolness and foreignness of a stranger’s hands cupping my bare breasts," Emily Ratajkowski writes in her new book.
American model and actress, Emily Ratajkowski, has accused Robin Thicke of sexually assaulting her on the set of the 'Blurred Lines' music video.
'Blurred Lines' was a big hit in 2013. Despite its popularity, the song was slammed for glorifying rape culture.
Emily was one of several models who appeared in the song's video. She featured in both the censored and uncensored versions of the video.
In an excerpt from her upcoming book, 'My Body', Emily reveals that Robin “returned to the set a little drunk to shoot just with me".
Things became uncomfortable when the singer touched her bare breasts.
“Suddenly, out of nowhere, I felt the coolness and foreignness of a stranger’s hands cupping my bare breasts from behind. I instinctively moved away, looking back at Robin Thicke,” she wrote.
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Emily, who gave birth to her first child with husband Sebastian Bear-McClard earlier this year, says she tried to shrug the humiliation off.
“I pushed my chin forward and shrugged, avoiding eye contact, feeling the heat of humiliation pump through my body. I didn’t react — not really, not like I should have.”
Diane Martel, who directed the music video, says she immediately called Robin out and he “sheepishly apologised”.
"I know him, he would not have acted in this was sober. That's not a free pass but it is the truth," she told Newsweek.
The singer is yet to comment on the allegations.
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Social media users have demanded that Robin apologise. Here's a look at how some of them reacted.
If Emily Ratajkowski, a relatively powerful woman in her industry, gets this treatment- imagine how bad it is for a regular woman. pic.twitter.com/fr3XCLnFRn
— 💧Tamara🇦🇲🇦🇺 (@adoseoftamar) October 4, 2021
This is awful- huge solidarity with Emily Ratajkowski. The lyrics of Blurred Lines very clearly indicate Thicke’s misogyny and disregard for consent, yet, as usual, it was ignored because they ‘didn’t think he would actually do something.’ Violence often starts with language! https://t.co/192ZuWeDUN
— Tali🌻✨ (@tali_silas) October 3, 2021
Absolutely unsurprising
— TomHatesConservatives (@TomHatesHate) October 5, 2021
Any man who wants to have young women dancing in a video for his shite pop song is a creep and a cretin
It’s terrible this horrible stuff keeps happening to young women like #EmilyRatajkowski #ibelieveher
Fuck your @robinthickehttps://t.co/G84oFvYR0G
people criticizing emily ratajkowski can’t look past the fact that she was topless in this music video and thinks getting “groped” on set is somehow justifiable. she signed up to work topless not get groped by a creep
— tired egg (@tired__eggg) October 5, 2021
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Main image courtesy of Instagram/ (@robinthicke, @emrata)
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