Thandiwe Newton has recalled being “derailed” from herself after being sexually abused by a director at the age of 16.
In 2020, Newton recalled “bursting into tears” while filming a sexual assault scene in her Oscar-winning movie Crash.
In a new interview with British Vogue, Newton recalled being “changed” by the abuse. “There’s a moment where the ghost of me changed, you know, and it was then, it was 16,” Newton remembered.
Newton’s name was misspelled as “Thandie” in the credits for her debut film Flirting in 1991, and it stuck as she rose to fame.