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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Sian Cain and agencies

Brendan Fraser won’t attend Golden Globes after claiming he was sexually assaulted

Brendan Fraser
Brendan Fraser at the Toronto International film festival in September. Fraser won’t attend the Golden Globes, even if nominated for an award. Photograph: Arthur Mola/Invision/AP


Brendan Fraser says he won’t attend next year’s Golden Globes, even if he’s nominated for his acclaimed performance in The Whale, after having alleged that he was sexually assaulted by the former president of the organisation that runs the awards.

In 2018, Fraser publicly alleged that Philip Berk, a longtime Hollywood Foreign Press Association member and a former president of the organisation behind the Globes, once groped him at a lunch in Beverly Hills, in 2003.

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