Terry Crews tweets full email from producer embroiled in sexual harassment scandal

The number of sexual harassment and assault allegations that have come to light of late have been alarming. Certainly news of Harvey Weinstein's history of sexual misconduct continues to rock the entertainment industry, and has encouraged other victims to come forward with their own experiences of sexual abuse. As such, Weinstein is not the only household name to have such claims leveled against him; in recent weeks, figures such as Kevin Spacey, Louis CK and Steven Seagal have also been slammed with similar allegations. But while the majority of the victims who have come forward are women, we cannot discount the experiences of men who have faced sexual trauma. Indeed, actor and former NFL star Terry Crews recently claimed that he was assaulted by a “high-level Hollywood executive” - later named as WME agent Adam Venit - during a pool party back in February 2016. And now, Crews has taken to Twitter to display how complicit the industry is in covering up such allegations. The 49-year-old tweeted a screenshot of an email, sent to him by the music producer Russell Simmons asking him to give his attacker "a pass". The email that Crews received from the billionaire producer read: "Did he ever apologise Give the agent a pass ask that he be reinstated "With great love, all things are possible" The Brooklyn Nine-Nine actor took to Twitter to post his response, which was at once simple yet powerful, "NO ONE GETS A PASS". [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/terrycrews/status/932276034388467712]] Crews was encouraged to share his story after news of Harvey Weinstein's history of sexual harassment and abuse broke. In a Twitter post, he wrote: "This whole thing with Harvey Weinstein is giving me PTSD. Why? Because this kind of thing happened to ME." In the following series of tweets, the former linebacker narrated how, at an industry function in 2016, a male executive groped his genitals in front of his wife and "grinned like a jerk". [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/terrycrews/status/917838446697226240]] [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/terrycrews/status/917838500061253632]] He explained that while he was tempted to retaliate, he was concerned about how the incident would be covered in the press, "I decided not 2 take it further becuz I didn’t want 2b ostracized— par 4 the course when the predator has power n influence," he said. "'240 lbs. Black Man stomps out Hollywood Honcho’ would be the headline the next day." [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/terrycrews/status/917838823874105344]] [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/terrycrews/status/917838656500506625]] Crews said that Adam Venit later called to apologise, but failed to give any reasoning for his actions. As such, the actor chose to keep quiet, for fear of being ostracised, as he explained, "[It’s] par [for] the course when the predator has power [and] influence". [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/terrycrews/status/917838823874105344]] [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/terrycrews/status/917838900944519168]] He then explained that the traumatising experience has helped him to "understand and empathise with those who have remained silent". He added that he hoped that by making his experience public, he would "deter a predator and encourage someone who feels hopeless".