Ellen Page says Brett Ratner outed her, made her feel 'violated'
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Actress Ellen Page tore into “X-Men: The Last Stand” director Brett Ratner, accusing him of sexually harassing her — and outing her as a lesbian at a time when she was not prepared to come out.
“’You should f--k her to make her realize she’s gay.’ He said this about me during a cast and crew ‘meet and greet’ before we began filming, X Men: The Last Stand. I was eighteen years old,” Page, 30, said in the lengthy Facebook post.
“He looked at a woman standing next to me, ten years my senior, pointed to me and said: ‘You should f--k her to make her realize she’s gay.’ He was the film’s director, Brett Ratner.”
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The crude remark left her speechless, said Page, who played Kitty Pryde in the X-Men series.
“I was a young adult who had not yet come out to myself,” Page wrote.
“I knew I was gay, but did not know, so to speak. I felt violated when this happened. I looked down at my feet, didn’t say a word and watched as no one else did either. This man, who had cast me in the film, started our months of filming at a work event with this horrific, unchallenged plea,” Page continued.
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“He ‘outed’ me with no regard for my well-being, an act we all recognize as homophobic.”
Six other women, including actress Olivia Munn, have also accused Ratner of sexual harassment and misconduct — charges he and his camp have strenuously denied.
His lawyer, Martin Singer, did not immediately respond to email and phone requests for comment by The Post on the Page allegations.
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Singer has previously told the Los Angeles Times no one had ever complained about his client.
“I have represented Mr. Ratner for two decades, and no woman has ever made a claim against him for sexual misconduct or sexual harassment,” Singer said in a letter to the paper after the first round of allegations.
“Furthermore, no woman has ever requested or received any financial settlement from my client.”
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This article originally appeared in the New York Post's Page Six.