Elijah Wood: Hollywood in grip of child sex abuse
'There is a darkness in the underbelly'
Published: 19 hours ago
Actor Elijah Wood, best known for his role as Frodo in “Lord of the Rings,” is spilling the beans on a dark, ugly secret in Hollywood: child sex abuse.
The former child actor said in an interview with London’s Sunday Times that young actors are being sexually abused by high-powered predatory “vipers” in the movie industry. He says the abuse is “probably still happening.”
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Wood draws uncomfortable parallels with English television personality Jimmy Savile’s scandalous sexual abuse of young girls. An “atmosphere of fear” at BBC is reportedly how Savile was allowed to commit his sex crimes for decades.
Despite years of rumors and innuendo, Savile’s crimes were only revealed after his death, leading to allegations of cover-ups by broadcasting giants and government figures.
Wood, 35, deeply sympathizes with Savile’s victims. “Jesus, it must have been devastating,” he says.
Wood escaped any childhood abuse thanks to the vigilance of his mother, Debra. He began acting in Hollywood at age eight, and said his mother was “far more concerned with raising me to be a good human than facilitating my career. I never went to parties where that kind of thing was going on.”
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But Wood believes many other young actors are in active danger. “I’ve been led down dark paths to realize that these things probably are still happening,” he said. “If you’re innocent, you have very little knowledge of the world and you want to succeed. People with parasitic interests will see you as their prey. What upsets me about these situations is that the victims can’t speak as loudly as the people in power.”
There were “a lot of vipers in this industry,” he added. “There is darkness in the underbelly.”
These allegations are confirmed by another former child actor, Corey Feldman. “The number 1 problem in Hollywood was and is – and always will be – pedophilia,” he said in an interview.
In his book “Coreyography: A Memoir
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