Mischa Barton Speaks Out On Sex Tape, Gets Restraining Orders Against Two Ex-Boyfriends
Posted on Thu Mar 16th, 2017 9:25am PDT By X17 Staff
This poor girl.
Mischa Barton held a press conference on Wednesday to address the sex tape involving her that's being shopped around to porn companies, and the actress made it very clear she plans to fight against its release to the full extent of the law.
“I just want to say that I have been put through an incredibly hard and trying time. This is a painful situation and my absolute fear was realized when I learned that someone I thought I loved and trusted was filming my most intimate and private moments without my consent, with hidden cameras. And then I learned something even worse — that someone is trying to sell these videos and make them public," she said alongside her lawyer, Lisa Bloom.
“I want to protect them from the pain and humiliation that I have had to go through. No woman should have to go through this, and I am beyond grateful to Lisa Bloom, the Bloom firm and to all my friends that have helped me through this horrific experience. It is a very hard thing to do, but I am glad that I am finally standing up for myself," she added.
Her lawyer drove the point home on Twitter, saying she would stop at nothing to make sure her client got justice.
“I am very proud to represent actress Mischa Barton, who is courageously standing up for her rights. It has been reported that naked or sexually explicit images of Ms. Barton are being ‘shopped around.’ Ms. Barton does not consent to any disclosure of any such images. She believes that she was recorded without her consent by someone she was seeing at the time. There’s a name for this disgusting conduct: revenge pornography. Revenge pornography is a form of sexual assault, and it is also a crime and a civil wrong in California. And we will not stand for it. I have a message for anyone who attempts to traffic in these photos or videos of Ms. Barton: we will find you, and we will come after you. We will fully prosecute you under every available criminal and civil law. You proceed at your peril," Bloom wrote.
The OC alum went to court to obtain restraining orders against ex-boyfriends Jon Zacharias and Adam Shaw, both of whom she was dating around the time the tape was secretly filmed.
"The only two people who could have any sexually intimate photos or videos of me are Jon Zacharias and Adam Shaw. Each of them desperately need money. It is only a matter of hours before those videos and photos could be sold and published online without a court order preventing the sale. It would hurt my career and I would be publicly embarrassed. The attempt to sell these videos or photos is nothing short of domestic violence in the form of revenge pornography and is being used to get back at me after the breakup of a relationship and to take advantage of my celebrity status - all without my permission, knowledge or consent," she explained in court papers.
What a horrific ordeal!