Karla Souza alleges she was raped by a director

How To Get Away With Murder star Karla Souza has claimed she was raped a director while filming a movie in Mexico early in her career.
The Mexican actress, who plays Laurel Castillo in the hit TV show, revealed during an interview with CNN en Espanol on Tuesday (20Feb18) that she was harassed, humiliated and assaulted by the director, who she declined to name, during a one-month shoot in her native country.
In the interview, she recalled how the rest of the cast and crew were in a different hotel to her and the director, who would allegedly show up at her room in the early hours to talk about work.
“He knocked at my door saying he wanted to go over some scenes and I thought it’s 2 a.m., it’s not appropriate and it’s something that shouldn’t be happening,” she said.
On one occasion, she decided against opening the door and letting him in, and as a result, he decided not to shoot her scene the following day.
“Then he suddenly started to humiliate me in front of the others on the set,” she recounted. “This was the psychological control that he held over me.”
After a month of dealing with his “total abuse of power”, the 32-year-old admitted, while wiping away tears, that she finally gave in.
“I ended up giving in to him (to let him) kiss me, to touch me in ways I did not want him to touch me and in one of those instances, he attacked me violently and yes, he raped me,” she emotionally confessed.
She added she didn’t speak out at the time because she feared it would harm her acting career.
Spectre actress Stephanie Sigman appeared on the same show and claimed that she was pulled into a dark room at a party by a film producer and his wife and they fondled her without her consent. Sigman, who was 22 at the time, said she got angry and slapped both of them.
They add to the growing list of women and men in Hollywood who have recounted experiences of sexual harassment or abuse in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein expose.