After his wife’s death, a legendary ’80s actor went from making iconic movies “to being at home with a couple of little kids.”

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Several weeks later, in a blog post, she wrote, "I posted the words I wrote, a few weeks ago, because I was tired of hiding. Never feeling free or burden free. I had become enmeshed with my story like a dark secret. It made me alone and feel alone. What is also hard to explain is that, in hiding, in not talking, I was allowing the rape to become a companion. Me and it living in my being, I no longer wanted to feel that intimacy with it, a decade of that intimacy has been destructive. I had to set myself free. I have been hurt and it would have been dangerous to talk from that hurt place in the past, prior to feeling ready."

She described her intense fear about speaking about her trauma publicly and how she used to dream about changing her name and moving to another country where she could start over completely. 

She said, "I thought the public disclosure of my story would utterly destroy my life, emotionally, while hiding my story was destroying my life so much more. So, I just have to be strong and disclose it, and face all my fears head on. I've come to realize I can't erase myself, I live in my being, so I have to be completely honest and have faith in the outcome."

Duffy is set to share her story in an upcoming Disney+ documentary.

Marina outgrew her dysplasia, and her dad continued to prioritize spending time with her. He said, "We make breakfast, go horseback riding, hiking. I really try to offset this computer-age-kid thing that's going on now with as much time outside. Spending time with her is the best thing I've ever done. We have a great bond, and it's the best thing in my life."

Marina is grown up now, and they appear to still be close. 

Matt went on to play an Emmy-nominated and Golden Globe-winning role as a fictionalized version of himself on the Showtime series Episodes.

In her statement, Kesha said, "Only God knows what happened that night. As I have always said, I cannot recount everything that happened. I am looking forward to closing the door on this chapter of my life and beginning a new one. I wish nothing but peace to all parties involved."

In his statement, Dr. Luke said, “While I appreciate Kesha again acknowledging that she cannot recount what happened that night in 2005, I am absolutely certain that nothing happened. I never drugged or assaulted her and would never do that to anyone. For the sake of my family, I have vigorously fought to clear my name for nearly 10 years. It is time for me to put this difficult matter behind me and move on with my life. I wish Kesha well."

The announcement came several months after the release of Gag Order, Kesha's final album with Dr. Luke's Kemosabe Records. She officially parted ways with the label that December.

In 2024, she told V magazine, "There is a day marked on my calendar when I am free to release music."

And finally, in 2025, she dropped Period, her first album on her new independent label, Kesha Records. 

As the years went by, journalists continued to press Janet about the incident in many interviews, and she kept apologizing.

When Justin was announced as the 2017 Super Bowl Halftime headliner, people called out the fact that he had yet to apologize to Janet. In 2021, he finally did. 

The following year, Janet released a self-titled documentary in which she said, "It was an accident that should not have happened, but everyone is looking for someone to blame, and that's got to stop. Justin and I are very good friends, and we will always be very good friends. We spoke just a few days ago. He and I have moved on, and it’s time for everyone else to do the same. We talked once and [Justin] said, 'I don't know if I should come out and make a statement.' And I said, 'Listen, I don't want any drama for you. They're aiming all of this at me.' So I said, 'If I were you, I wouldn't say anything.'"

Rick is making his long-awaited return to acting in the upcoming movie Spaceballs 2. It will be his first movie since 1997, when he starred in Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves.

A Nickelodeon spokesperson told the Hollywood Reporter, "We are unaware of the incident JoJo is referencing, and she was certainly not blackballed by Nickelodeon. We have valued and supported JoJo throughout our incredibly successful partnership, which included a JoJo-themed Pride collection at a major national retailer, among our many collaborations together. We continue to cheer her on and wish her nothing but the best."

In the doc, she also expressed her fears that Lover was her final chance at major success. She said, "I wish I didn't feel like there's a better version of me out there. I feel that way all the time. It's a lot to process because we do exist in this society where women in entertainment are discarded in an elephant graveyard by the time they're 35. Everyone's a shiny new toy for two years. [...] This is probably one of my last opportunities as an artist to grasp on to that kind of success. As I'm reaching 30, I want to work really hard while society is still tolerating me being successful."

Of course, Taylor went on to be more successful than ever in her 30s, embarking on her massive The Eras Tour at age 33 and releasing her record-breaking album The Life of a Showgirl two months before her 36th birthday.

She made her comeback with her first comedy role in 2021's Don't Look Up.

He landed the first role he auditioned for — Waymond Wang in Everything Everywhere All at Once. 

His comeback led to the kind of career high most actors only dream about! In 2023, he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. Onstage, he said, "I owe everything to the love of my life, my wife Echo, who month after month [and] year after year for 20 years told me that one day, one day my time will come. Dreams are something you have to believe in. I almost gave up on mine. To all of you out there, please keep your dreams alive. Thank you, thank you so much for welcoming me back."

He continued, "I was seeing myself in [the character], but in my personal life. I remember having a bit of a meltdown at home and thinking, like, 'I'm going to shave my head. I need to shave my head because I need to get rid of this character.' And, obviously, we were mid-shooting, so I decided not to… It was unlike anything I've ever experienced before."

In 2024, Tom made his return to the West End as Romeo in an onstage production of Romeo and Juliet. 

His next onscreen projects, The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day, are set to come out in the summer of 2026.

Taylor went on to star in miniseries like Waco and American Primeval, going to great lengths to prepare for his roles. 

Then, in 2023, he took on the role of Glen, a man dealing with addiction, in Painkiller to honor his sister's journey. He brought her on set with him as an advisor, and she also cameoed as a nurse. He said, "I was like, 'Are you sure? You're not going to relapse if you see me faking using Oxy.' She was like, 'I think I'm good.'"

Additionally, Shelby helped him with a detox scene. He said, "She'd be like, 'Go bigger, you'd be sweating more.' Bringing her was incredibly cathartic and obviously full circle. I was the emotional mess, and she was just killing it."

She also claimed that she was told the studio no longer wanted to cast her as the lead opposite Harrison Ford in Six Days, Seven Nights. However, she found an ally in her costar. 

She continued, "He said, 'Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn who you're sleeping with. We have a romantic comedy to make. Let's make it the best one that's ever happened.' That is why Harrison Ford is my hero. To stand behind me at such a time when the force of what I was standing up for could have been toppled."

He didn't get the role, but the experience inspired him to get back on the horse. He said, "All of a sudden I had a new manager, and I thought, 'Let's give it another shot.' I felt like I had a reset...The doors didn't open very quickly. There was a lot of, 'Oh, I remember he didn't show up to the audition because he was partying the night before,' or whatever it was." 

Eventually, he caught a break with Nikita, and he's gone on to appear in projects like Chucky and Hacks.

She continued, "And then the calls started coming in once I'd said yes, from a couple of advisers in Hollywood who were out gay men, [telling me] to not do it. A lot of people in my life really worried. And I was like, 'This is ridiculous.' This is where I grew up in a bubble and didn't realize we weren't there yet or something.

The first time I became aware was, Oprah and I were having a snack, and suddenly a flood of cops swarmed the set and the stage while we were rehearsing. They're like, 'There's been a bomb threat, we're sweeping the stage.' And they start literally rushing us off the stage. We only did it for what, ten days? We all spent the next couple of years really struggling in work and safety. It was radical to experience that. It was the only time I ever experienced having to have full security detail.

But what was amazing, which I will never forget, [was] that when she looked in my eyes, she said it was the first time she said 'I'm gay' out loud. We didn't rehearse it, so when she said it to me, and was looking in my eyes and holding my hands, and I felt her shaking … the gift — it makes me want to cry — the gift of that, the intimacy of what that means, was such insight for me. And I'll carry it for the rest of my life. It's shaped and continues to shape who I am as an advocate, as an activist, as a parent. It's a profound thing when you see someone bring their truth, but also all the layers of shame and fear that have been put onto you because of feeling like the other, whatever your experience is. So I'm forever grateful."

Not only did life in Dubai bring Lindsay the privacy she desired, but it also brought her the love she'd been afraid she'd never find. She met Bader Shammas at a restaurant in the city, and they got married in 2022. They welcomed their first child together the following year. 

Lindsay's had several smaller acting roles over the years, but she returned to her rightful place as a leading lady in the 2022 Netflix rom-com Falling for Christmas.

Jessica released a holiday album, Happy Christmas, in 2010, then she largely shifted her career focus away from music for the next 15 years. Then, in 2025, she made her musical comeback with the two-part album Nashville Canyon.

Imran Ansari, Weinstein's attorney, said that his client "categorically denies the allegations made against him by Ormond and he is prepared to vehemently defend himself."

CAA had "compassion" for Julia but denied her claims. Disney and Miramax didn't respond to the BBC's request for comment.

In 2025, CAA issued a new court filing with "new evidence" that allegedly contradicted her claims. The agency alleged she was already aware of Weinstein's abuse because he had harassed her before she was signed with them, "undercutting her claim that CAA could have, or should have, warned her about Harvey Weinstein."

In a previous statement, Harvey Weinstein's reps said that "any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied."

Jeff Bezos did not respond to her on Twitter, and Amazon's spokespeople didn't respond to the Guardian's request for comment.

She also said, "They threatened [me] with being blacklisted. I was blacklisted after I was raped, because I got raped, because I said something…but only like internally, you know... I actually have a signed document from the time of the attack. It was settled for a very small settlement, so that's an admission of guilt."

Rose went on to find success in TV, most notably starring on Charmed in the '00s. In 2017, Time named her as one of the Silence Breakers that the outlet honored as Person of the Year.

"My experience, when Miramax controlled The Lord of the Rings (before New Line took over production of the film), was of Weinstein and his brother behaving like second-rate Mafia bullies. They weren't the type of guys I wanted to work with — so I haven't. Although his name had to be on The Lord of the Rings credits for contractual reasons, he was not involved in the movies we ended up making," he said.

In response, Ashley Judd tweeted, "Peter & Fran [Walsh] had me in - showed me all the creative, the boards, costumes, everything. They asked which [of] the two roles I preferred, and then I abruptly never heard from [them] again. I appreciate the truth coming out. Thank you, Peter."

Per the BBC, Weinstein released a statement denying that he blacklisted the actors. He said that casting for LOTR was done by New Line Cinema, not Miramax, and that Ashley was later cast in two Miramax films.

In a statement, Weinstein said, "I appreciate the way I've behaved with colleagues in the past has caused a lot of pain, and I sincerely apologize for it. Though I'm trying to do better, I know I have a long way to go."

In an additional statement, a lawyer advising him added, "He denies many of the accusations as patently false."

In 2017, she told the New Yorker that, in a hotel room after a film festival in 1995, "He started massaging my shoulders, which made me very uncomfortable, and then tried to get more physical, sort of chasing me around." 

She said that she left the room after telling him that dating married men was against her religion. Then, a few weeks later, he allegedly called her in the middle of the night and invited himself over to her apartment. She "freaked out" and had a friend come over to pretend to be her boyfriend. Though Weinstein arrived before the friend, he allegedly left after being told her "boyfriend" would be arriving.

Per BBC, Weinstein released a statement through his publicist denying Sorvino's claims, adding, "Sorvino was always considered for other films as well."

Mira has continued to act consistently; but since the '90s, she has mostly appeared in smaller films. 

Fear and panic overtook him, but he got the man's hand away. He said, "I felt ill. I felt like a little kid. I felt like there was a ball in my throat. I thought I was going to cry... I felt like someone had thrown invisible paint on me."

Philip Berk told GQ, "Mr. Fraser's version is a total fabrication."

Brendan ran outside. He ran past a police officer, but he felt unable to tell anyone except his then-wife, Afton Smith. Later, he thought about speaking out, but he "didn't want to contend with how that made [him] feel, or it becoming part of [his] narrative."

His representatives got a written apology from Philip, who told GQ, "My apology admitted no wrongdoing, the usual 'If I've done anything that upset Mr. Fraser, it was not intended, and I apologize.'"

Philip told GQ, "His career declined through no fault of ours."

However, seeing peers who'd had similar alleged experiences encouraged Brendan to speak out. He said, "I know Rose [McGowan], I know Ashley [Judd], I know Mira [Sorvino] — I've worked with them. I call them friends in my mind. I haven't spoken to them in years, but they're my friends. I watched this wonderful movement, these people with the courage to say what I didn't have the courage to say... Am I still frightened? Absolutely. Do I feel like I need to say something? Absolutely. Have I wanted to many, many times? Absolutely. Have I stopped myself? Absolutely." 

After speaking out, he had a career resurgence, most notably winning the Oscar for Best Actor in 2023.

If you or someone you know has experienced sexual assault, you can call the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673), which routes the caller to their nearest sexual assault service provider. You can also search for your local center here. 

If you or someone you know has experienced anti-LGBTQ violence or harassment, you can contact the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs hotline at 1-212-714-1141.

StopBullying.gov is an organization that provides resources to prevent harassment and bullying against children. Stomp Out Bullying offers a free and confidential chat line here.

The National Alliance on Mental Illness helpline is 1-800-950-6264 (NAMI) and provides information and referral services; GoodTherapy.org is an association of mental health professionals from more than 25 countries who support efforts to reduce harm in therapy.