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Terry Crews' daughter Azriél Patricia Crews is opening up about an unsettling encounter with an actor at a celebrity wedding she attended when she was 16.
The actor followed her around at several events related to the wedding, eventually caressing the back of her arm and pressing his knee against hers under the table.
Azriel said the actor "has actually publicly disgraced himself many, many times" since their encounter.
Azriél Patricia Crews is calling out the behavior of a "creepy actor" at a celebrity wedding she attended when she was only 16 years old.
Terry Crews' second-eldest daughter with wife Rebecca King-Crews took toInstagramon Friday to share a two-part story about when she "got hit on by a creepy actor at a celebrity wedding." Before clarifying in advance that she would "not be naming names" when recounting the unsettling encounter, Azriel said with a smirk, "Let's get into it."
The actress and singer explained that she attended the high-profile ceremony with her parents before her father had truly come into his own as a star, so she was bowled over by the sheer wattage of the stars attending. At a pre-wedding party during the week-long chain of events, King-Crews introduced her daughter to the actor "as her 16-year-old, so he was very well aware of my age."
"He was friendly at first, and I was a fan of his work, so I was actually really excited to meet him — at first," Azriel said.
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"We arrived at the ceremony, and we found some seats which were unassigned, but then, as if on cue, creepy actor slides into the seat next to me, and he says, 'Funny meeting you here,'" Azriel continued. "As if he didn't intentionally choose that seat. They weren't assigned. That was my first official red flag."
Azriel continued to explain inpart 2of the story that she encountered the actor again at the wedding reception, which was held at a sprawling estate.
"Now, I want to sit back and relax and enjoy my evening, and who sits next to me but the creepy actor. Somehow his name was on the place card next to mine, which, coincidence? I'll never know. So then he leans over to me and says, 'Well, hello again,'" she said.
Azriel recounted how she tried to ignore the actor as he chatted up her parents when "suddenly I feel a hand caress the back of my arm, so I turn to him, and he's smiling at me, creepily, and he says, 'Are you enjoying yourself?' So I said, 'Yes,' and he goes, 'Well, don't act too civilized.' And that was when I realized that his knee was pressed against my knee under the table."
She didn't wait a moment before springing up and heading to the bathroom.
Azriel's mother followed her to the bathroom, she explained, where she explained what happened.
"My mother immediately believed me and, being the Christian woman that she is, held my hands and started praying with me in the bathroom" that the actor "would leave us alone, because we didn't want to have to tell my father and cause a scene at this big star-studded event," she said. Incredibly, he was gone when they returned.
"Was it an answer to prayer?" Azriel asked. "Possibly. Or it was the fact he realized he had gone too far. We never saw him for the rest of the night." Though she kept good on her promise not to name names, Azriel noted that the actor in question "has actually publicly disgraced himself many, many times" since their encounter.
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Terry Crews has previously opened up about his own history of unwanted sexual contact.
In 2017, theBrooklyn Nine-Ninestarrevealed he had been gropedby a "high-level Hollywood executive" the year before at a party. "I decided not 2 take it further becuz I didn't want 2b ostracized— par 4 the course when the predator has power n influence," Crews shared in the wake of the first allegations coming down against disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein. "I let it go. And I understand why many women who this happens to let it go. Who's going 2 believe you? ( few)."
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