PLATELL’S PEOPLE: Why did Sex And The City accusers take so long to cry rape?
As the lead male love interest in Sex And The City, the actor Chris Noth has been in the public eye ever since the series that captivated millions of single women first appeared in 1998.
The show has remained one of the most re-watched TV dramas. There have been two movies — one of them took $419 million at the box office, and in it Noth, as Carrie’s on-off lover Mr Big, abandoned her at the altar.
Yet only now, following the current reboot of the series in which Mr Big dies of a heart attack, have two women come forward accusing the actor of raping them.
One says it happened 17 years ago and the second, seven. Both claim that seeing the new series brought back painful memories of their ordeal and they had to speak out.
But since Sex And The City has been with us for decades, my question is: why has it taken these women so long to make their accusations?
As the lead male love interest in Sex And The City, the actor Chris Noth has been in the public eye ever since the series that captivated millions of single women first appeared in 1998
After all, these are appalling and serious allegations. Both women, using pseudonyms, have given graphic and disturbing accounts of what they claim happened.
‘Zoe’ says Noth raped her in 2004, when she was 22, refusing to stop when she pleaded with him. She adds that she required stitches after the assault. ‘Lily’ says she was 25 when he violently raped her in 2015.
For his part, Roth says both accusations are ‘categorically false’, insisting both encounters were ‘consensual’. He also says: ‘It’s difficult not to question the timing of these stories coming out.’
Importantly, the sooner a woman contacts police after being raped, the more likely the perpetrator will be caught and convicted — and, given the pitifully low rape conviction figures, it is vital to do so as quickly as possible.
Zoe Lister-Jones has claimed Noth was ‘sexually inappropriate’ to women at his NYC club and ‘sniffed her neck on set while drunk
Noth’s supermodel ex Beverly Johnson accused him of ‘beating her’, ‘making death threats’ against her and ‘vowing to kill her dog’ in 1995
I have no idea what the truth is. Zoe says she’s speaking now because her mother’s recently died and she didn’t want her to be haunted at the end of her life.
And both women could, indeed, have taken years to process the abuse they allegedly suffered before finally finding the strength to make their accusations. In which case, one can only admire their courage in going public at last.
But there is also the fact that, having delayed for so long, they risk coming across as #MeToo opportunists more interested in making money out of a celebrity than seeing justice done.
Affleck: Scotch and a marriage on the rocks
Now happily loved-up with Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck says he stayed with ex-wife Jennifer Garner for the sake of their three children.
He drank a bottle of Scotch every night to numb his misery but insists he was ‘a good dad’.
Sorry, Ben, that’s a judgment for your children to make.
Now happily loved-up with Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck says he stayed with ex-wife Jennifer Garner (pictured together) for the sake of their three children
Despite being overwhelmed by Covid, other NHS services are still working.
My scheduled mammogram took place last week and the X-rays showed no sign of cancer.
Best early Christmas present I could have wished for — and eternal thanks to all those unsung NHS workers who keep soldiering on.
A sad day for all us Bruce Springsteen fans as he flogs the rights to his song catalogue for £376 million, meaning his hits can be used for commercial ads.
I’m guessing that McDonald’s won’t bid for his Tougher Than The Rest to promote its burgers.
A sad day for all us Bruce Springsteen fans as he flogs the rights to his song catalogue for £376 million, meaning his hits can be used for commercial ads
Facebook’s Vice President Sir Nick Clegg says he’s glad social media wasn’t around when he was young as his ‘many, many’ indiscretions could have derailed his ambitions.
Living in a $9 million Californian mansion on a mega SiliconValley salary, he adds unconvincingly that he’s not an ‘extravagant guy’.
Our Ex-Deputy PM Cleggy was never strong on self-knowledge.
Facebook’s Vice President Sir Nick Clegg says he’s glad social media wasn’t around when he was young as his ‘many, many’ indiscretions could have derailed his ambitions
Just call me Doris
How adorable that Carrie Johnson named her baby girl Romy (after her aunt Rosemary), Iris (the Greek for rainbow — a rainbow baby after a miscarriage but also LGBT etc.), and Charlotte (after Boris’s mum).
It was simpler in my mum’s day. She picked the first name in the baby book, Amanda, adding Jane as she was reading Pride And Prejudice. Had she chosen my beloved aunt’s name, I’d be Doris.
Liz Truss watch
Is it a coincidence that just as Boris is pulverised in the North Shropshire by-election, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss trumpets her £10 billion trade deal with Australia?
There’s also her oh-so-grand Christmas card — showing her Prime Ministerially bedecked with a Union Jack flag and sitting next to a globe — sent out soon after 100 Tory MPs rebelled against Boris Johnson over Covid measures.
Silly to think Ms T wants to become the next Lady T: Ambitious Liz is clearly modelling herself on Queen Elizabeth I.
Is it a coincidence that just as Boris is pulverised in the North Shropshire by-election, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss trumpets her £10 billion trade deal with Australia?
Testimony to the kindness of Brits that in one day we donated £9.5 million to feed the millions of children facing starvation in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, despite the deaths of 457 of our soldiers there.
We never won the minds of Afghans, but we might finally have won their hearts.
We’re moving inexorably into Covid Plan C — with ‘C’ standing for Creep towards another lockdown.
A better plan would be to reopen those Nightingale hospitals set up at the beginning of Covid — and use them to lock up anti-vaxxers.
Where were Billie’s parents?
Pop star Billie Eilish says watching porn from the age of 11 damaged not only her brain but led her to believe that violent and abusive sex was normal.
Her testimony coincides with MPs demanding that porn sites have a legal duty to stop children accessing their content.
Call me old-fashioned, but I thought that was the ‘moral duty’ of parents.
Pop star Billie Eilish says watching porn from the age of 11 damaged not only her brain but led her to believe that violent and abusive sex was normal
The nation cheered when Sherrilyn Speid gently nudged her car into an Insulate Britain fanatic illegally blocking the road.
Sherrilyn was desperate to get her child to school, but now faces possible jail after being charged with dangerous driving and assault.
Yet the serially-offending protester is subject to no police action, despite defying a court injunction. Where’s the justice in that?
In yet another desperate bid for fame, Brooklyn Beckham restyles himself as a chef with his own online cooking show, rustling up steamed crab and pasta.
Few things are more unappetising than a privileged son riding on the coat-tails of fabulously rich and famous parents.
In yet another desperate bid for fame, Brooklyn Beckham restyles himself as a chef with his own online cooking show, rustling up steamed crab and pasta
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