Kate Beckinsale shares two-worded message emblazoned on her platform heels after ‘toxic Hollywood’ rant
KATE Beckinsale has issued a strongly-worded message on her platform boots days after branding Hollywood “toxic”.
The actress, 51, was pictured in the 8-inch heels while in Beverly Hills and gave onlookers a glimpse of her feelings with the footwear.
Kate’s platform heels each bore a studded word – with one spelling out ‘f***’ and the other ‘off’.
When she turned to the sides, the message could be read.
Kate teamed her daring footwear with a pair of spotty tights, a short skirt, white blouse and an oversized grey tank top.
The mum-of-one completed her look with a giant black bow on top of her head.
Kate’s decision to wear the platforms with expletives comes days after she took to social media and ranted about her experiences in Hollywood.
Breaking the industry’s code of silence, the Underworld star said she was “felt up” aged 18 by a trusted crew member, was left covered in bruises by an actor who got a “thrill” out of striking her during filming, and was forced to go through with a photoshoot the day after suffering a miscarriage.
The actress, who struggled with anorexia when she was 15, also told how she was made to undertake a dangerously strict diet by image-obsessed showbusiness bosses.
Kate decided to speak out in an Instagram video following the explosive row between Blake Lively and It Ends With Us director Justin Baldoni.
She praised Blake, 37, for her legal action, which she filed in December and that alleges sexually inappropriate behaviour and bullying on the set of the new film.
Kate said: “There’s a certain kind of actor who gets a kind of a thrill out of sort of being able to legally harm a woman during a fight sequence.
“I was harmed to the point where there were MRI scans proving it.
“I was gaslit and made to feel like I was the problem, blamed and ostracised, left out of cast dinners, not spoken to, as soon as I mentioned that there was a problem.”
Kate, who was born in London, said she experienced ‘sickening’ behaviour from the beginning of her career, despite having family already working within the industry.
Her dad was Porridge star Richard Beckinsale, who died aged 31 in 1979 from a heart attack, and her mum is actress Judy Loe.
She said: “I was actually, at the age of 18, felt up by somebody that I really trusted on a crew.”
Kate went on to claim that she told an actress “who is known for being a supporter of women” about the sexual assault, but says she was told “it didn’t” happen.
She revealed: “I went to another actress and said, crying, ‘I’ve just been assaulted by this man’ — again, ‘No, you haven’t been’.”
Kate also made accusations about a “drunk co-star”, saying: “I’ve been on a film where, by the end of it, I was referred to over walkie-talkies and to my face as ‘that c**’ because I had said, ‘I’m finding it very difficult — my co-star is drunk every day.”
Fans speculated about who the drunken co-star could be, wrongly jumping to the conclusion that it was Kate’s Pearl Harbour co-star Ben Affleck, who has admitted dealing with alcoholism over the years.
But Kate defended Ben, saying: “Ben Affleck protected me on an extremely toxic film set and could not have behaved more respectably.”
Kate has also claimed that movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, 72, invited her up to his hotel room to discuss her fledgling career when she was 17.
She alleged the producer – who is now serving 16 years in prison for rape and sexual assault – appeared in a bath robe and offered her alcohol.
