Harassment | Brendan Fraser's Oscar speech was a timely reminder about worker safety

NOTE: This article contains discussions of sexual harassment and assault.

Those who tuned into the 95th Academy Awards over the weekend will have likely fought back a tear or two watching Hollywood veteran Brendan Fraser accept his award for best actor with an impassioned speech discussing the darker years of his career.

Fraser, who some may remember for starring it hit films such as The Mummy and George of the Jungle, compared the darker years of his life to ‘being at the bottom of the ocean’, with the people in his life being his only connection to the surface.

What many may not know, is that his sudden absence from our screens was in part due to a sexual assault he experienced at the hands of an executive within the Hollywood community. He later explained that the incident left him ‘spiralling into depression’, resulting in an inability to work within the industry.