美国国家公共电台 NPR Actress Ashley Judd's #MeToo Moment Was Driven By A 'Commitment' To Her Younger Self

 

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

It's Friday, which is when we hear from Story Corps¹. And today, we have a conversation about the biggest story out of Hollywood in many years - indeed, one of the bigger stories in America in recent years - the Harvey Weinstein revelations that sparked a national conversation about sexual misconduct in the workplace. While you almost never hear the voices of celebrities² on Story Corps, leading into Oscar weekend, we will hear from one of the first actresses to speak out, Ashley Judd. She sat down to have this conversation with her friend Ted³ Klontz about her decision to go public with her allegations against Weinstein.

TED KLONTZ: About six months or so ago, you called me. And you said, I'm going to do it. And that meant allow New York Times to use your name specifically.

ASHLEY JUDD: Yes. I remember I told my mom. And she said, go get him, honey. And then when I spoke⁴ with my attorney, of course, she had concerns about lawsuits⁵ raining down on my head. But she also said, Ashley, if you can't do this, who can?

KLONTZ: I was scared, by the way. I had a bit of a, I think, fatherly protective thing. And I wonder if you could tell me where you think that courage came from.

JUDD: I think the courage comes from the little girl inside of me and my commitment to doing right by her. You know, I was sexually molested⁶ for the first time that I remember when I was 7 years old. And I immediately went and told two adults. They said, oh, he's a nice old man. That's not what he meant. But that seed in me was planted that I knew when something felt wrong. And, you know, the greatness of this moment is that, finally, the world was able to hear. You know, I'm going to go ahead and swear. I don't give a [expletive] what it costs me. All I can do is the next good, right, honest thing and let go of the results.

KLONTZ: It's almost as if you're concerned about what it cost you not to speak up.

JUDD: Yes. And that would be my integrity. And I guess I really believe that in the long term, there is a payoff for that. Harvey, in his own way, has given us a great gift. His decades of abuse - it was the funeral pyre to what hopefully will have been the old ways.

KLONTZ: It - yeah, I remember you telling me.

JUDD: Yeah.

KLONTZ: And I didn't do anything about it, either. And so right here - now I'll make amends⁷ for that because I had an opportunity to do something with it, too.

JUDD: I appreciate the amends. And you're off the hook. None of us knew what to do. None of us knew what to do.

KLONTZ: This thing that you did - by allowing your name to be used - sort of pulled the last little plug out of the dam.

JUDD: We've just flung the barn doors wide open, and the horses have run out. And the joy of the stampede has surprised me. I didn't know that it would be so joyous⁸.

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INSKEEP: That's the actress Ashley Judd with her friend Ted Klontz at Story Corps in Nashville, Tenn. Their conversation is part of a Story Corps partnership⁹ with the Time's Up movement in an effort to document the stories of working women, past and present, across America.

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1 corps   

n.(通信等兵种的)部队；(同类作的)一组

参考例句：

• The medical corps were cited for bravery in combat.医疗队由于在战场上的英勇表现而受嘉奖。
• When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时，他自愿参加了海军陆战队。

2 celebrities   

n.（尤指娱乐界的）名人( celebrity的名词复数 )；名流；名声；名誉

参考例句：

• He only invited A-list celebrities to his parties. 他只邀请头等名流参加他的聚会。
• a TV chat show full of B-list celebrities 由众多二流人物参加的电视访谈节目

3 ted   

vt.翻晒，撒，撒开

参考例句：

• The invaders gut ted the village.侵略者把村中财物洗劫一空。
• She often teds the corn when it's sunny.天好的时候她就翻晒玉米。

4 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

5 lawsuits   

n.诉讼( lawsuit的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Lawsuits involving property rights and farming and grazing rights increased markedly. 涉及财产权，耕作与放牧权的诉讼案件显著地增加。 来自辞典例句
• I've lost and won more lawsuits than any man in England. 全英国的人算我官司打得最多，赢的也多，输的也多。 来自辞典例句

6 molested   

v.骚扰( molest的过去式和过去分词 )；干扰；调戏；猥亵

参考例句：

• The bigger children in the neighborhood molested the younger ones. 邻居家的大孩子欺负小孩子。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He molested children and was sent to jail. 他猥亵儿童，进了监狱。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 amends   

n. 赔偿

参考例句：

• He made amends for his rudeness by giving her some flowers. 他送给她一些花，为他自己的鲁莽赔罪。
• This country refuses stubbornly to make amends for its past war crimes. 该国顽固地拒绝为其过去的战争罪行赔罪。

8 joyous   

adj.充满快乐的；令人高兴的

参考例句：

• The lively dance heightened the joyous atmosphere of the scene.轻快的舞蹈给这场戏渲染了欢乐气氛。
• They conveyed the joyous news to us soon.他们把这一佳音很快地传递给我们。

9 partnership   

n.合作关系，伙伴关系

参考例句：

• The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
• Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。