Elijah Wood: Hollywood Is Rife With Organized Child Abuse
The "Lord of the Rings" star and former child actor draws parallels between the U.S. entertainment scene and attacks attributed to the late British TV star Jimmy Savile.
Elijah Wood. (Gage Skidmore / CC-BY-2.0)
Elijah Wood. (Gage Skidmore / CC-BY-2.0)
Elijah Wood, the Lord of the Rings star and former child actor, told reporters Hollywood is rife with the organized sexual abuse of children.
The Guardian reports:
Speaking to the Sunday Times, Wood said that although he had been protected as a child – mainly through the efforts of his mother, who stopped him going to parties – many of his peers were regularly “preyed upon”.
Wood, now 35, drew parallels between such experiences and the prolific sexual abuse perpetrated by TV host Jimmy Savile. “You all grew up with Savile,” said Wood. “Jesus, it must have been devastating. Clearly something major was going on in Hollywood. It was all organised. There are a lot of vipers in this industry – people who only have their own interests in mind.”
“There is darkness in the underbelly,” he added. “If you can imagine it, it’s probably happened.”
The actor said he felt that such crimes continue to be unpunished because the victims “can’t speak as loudly as people in power”. “That’s the tragedy of attempting to reveal what is happening to innocent people. They can be squashed, but their lives have been irreparably damaged.”
—Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.
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