Actor Derek Dixon, who plays Dale on Tyler Perry’s long-running TV show, The Oval, says he “couldn’t say no” to the Hollywood mogul’s unwanted advances, and had to lock himself in a bathroom because he thought he would get raped.
Dixon told the Hollywood Reporter that one day while on set, Perry had asked him to come to his trailer for a drink.
“I knew I had to,” the actor said. “We all were living at Tyler Perry Studios, working for Tyler Perry — who was the producer, writer, and director — and I understood that you do what Tyler Perry says, and you go where he demands.”
“I felt like if you were invited and you cared at all about your career and staying on the show, you couldn’t say no,” Dixon added.
The actor, who is now suing Perry for sexual assault and harassment, went on to say that the director’s assistant brought margaritas into his trailer, where he then began asking Dixon inappropriate questions, such as whether he was attracted to him.
After deflecting Perry’s advances by telling him he wasn’t “that sexual” and wasn’t “looking for anything,” the Hollywood mogul gave him a hug and then pushed him against a wall — grabbing his buttocks — just as the actor was about to leave, Dixon told the magazine.
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