Chris Noth Is Accused of Sexual Assault By Two Women
In separate interviews with The Hollywood Reporter, the women say Noth assaulted them in 2004 and 2015, nearly a decade apart.
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Following the return of Sex and the City in its modern-day reboot And Just Like That…, Chris Noth, who briefly reprised his role as Mr. Big, has been accused of sexual assault by two women, according to a report from The Hollywood Reporter. The women, using the pseudonyms Zoe and Lily, contacted the outlet separately months apart and claimed Noth had assaulted them in 2004 and 2015 respectively.
Zoe told THR that she had “buried” the memory of the incident “for so many years,” but “seeing that he was reprising his role in Sex and the City set off something in me.” Zoe said she met Noth at the firm she worked at shortly after moving to Hollywood at 22, and one day Noth invited her and a friend to the pool of his West Hollywood apartment building. When he asked Zoe to bring a book he left by the pool to his apartment, she says he assaulted her shortly after entered.
Per THR:
He pulled her toward him, moved her toward the bed, pulled off her shorts and bikini bottom, and began to rape her from behind. She was facing a mirror. “It was very painful and I yelled out, ‘Stop!’” she says. “And he didn’t. I said, ‘Can you at least get a condom?’ and he laughed at me.”
When it was over, she says, “I realized there was blood on my shirt. I got out of there. I went to my friend’s apartment [in the same building].” The friend visiting from college was already there, she says. “I walked right in and went to the bathroom and tried to get the blood out of my shirt. They wanted to know what happened. I said, ‘I just want to go home.’” The visiting friend pursued her, and said, “You’re scaring me.”
Zoe’s friend told THR that Zoe seemed different when she came back from Noth’s apartment and recalls that the two went to Cedars-Sinai hospital, where Zoe got stitches. They told staff at the hospital that Zoe had been assaulted but didn’t disclose who had done it, as Zoe feared she would get fired if she publicly accused Noth. Two years after the incident, still struggling with nightmares and flashbacks, Zoe told THR she sought treatment at UCLA’s Rape Crisis Center, which confirmed that she had received counseling from them.