Emily Ratajkowski Claims Robin Thicke Groped Her
Emily Ratajkowski accuses Robin Thicke of groping her on the
set of his music video “Blurred Lines” in the model’s upcoming book My Body.
In the excerpt, first reported by the Sunday Times of
London, Ratajkowski — who appears topless in the edited and unrated versions of
the controversial visual — initially had no issues with the nudity the Diane
Martel-directed video required. However, things changed when Thicke “returned
to the set a little drunk to shoot just with me,” Ratajkowski writes.
“Suddenly, out of nowhere, I felt the coolness and
foreignness of a stranger’s hands cupping my bare breasts from behind. I
instinctively moved away, looking back at Robin Thicke,” Ratajkowski writes.
“He smiled a goofy grin and stumbled backward, his eyes
concealed behind his sunglasses. My head turned to the darkness beyond the set.
Diane’s voice cracked as she yelled out to me, ‘Are you okay?'”
Rolling Stone can confirm that the alleged incident appears
early in Ratajkowski’s book, in a chapter called “Blurred Lines.”
Representatives for Ratajkowski and Thicke did not immediately respond to
Rolling Stone‘s request for comment.
“I pushed my chin forward and shrugged, avoiding eye
contact, feeling the heat of humiliation pump through my body,” Ratajkowski
adds. “I didn’t react – not really, not like I should have.”
Speaking to the Sunday Times of London, Martel also
confirmed it took place, telling the magazine, “I remember the moment that he
grabbed her breasts. One in each hand. He was standing behind her as they were
both in profile. I screamed in my very aggressive Brooklyn voice, ‘What the
fuck are you doing, that’s it!! The shoot is over!” Martel added that Thicke
apologized after the incident, which the director said wouldn’t have happened
“had he been sober.”
In her book My Body, out October 19th, Ratajkowski continues
by saying that she didn’t mention the incident in interviews following the
video’s success and beyond because she didn’t want to think about the incident,
and she also wanted to protect the environment Martel cultivated on set with
the other young models involved.
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