Jena Malone Is Being Pressured to Name Alleged ‘Hunger Games’ Rapist, As Fans Rush to Her Defense
When a celebrity names her abuser, she is demonized and called a liar. When she doesn't name her abuser, she's shamed for "enabling the perpetrator." Lose-lose!
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In the days since Hunger Games star Jena Malone alleged that a co-worker on the set of the blockbuster action franchise sexually assaulted her years ago, she’s faced a swarm of comments on her post demanding that she identify her alleged rapist and essentially calling her selfish for not doing so.
In Malone’s Instagram post, in which she writes that she “was sexually assaulted by someone I had worked with” while filming The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, Malone describes struggling to navigate the mixed emotions she feels about her time on set. “I wish it wasn’t tied to such a traumatic event for me but that is the real wildness of life I guess. How to hold the chaos with the beauty,” she wrote. “I’ve worked very hard to heal and learn thru restorative justice, how to make peace with the person who violated me and make peace with myself.”
Per Malone’s own words, she’s “made peace” with her assailant and sought this through “restorative justice,” rather than through the criminal legal system, which we know often fails survivors. But many on the internet feel entitled to more information about the alleged assault: “This is sad all around but not naming the person who assaulted you is putting other people at risk,” one commenter wrote. “Do you not think that people who sexually assault another should be ‘canceled’? … Maybe the person who assaulted you also assaulted someone else before you. You are enabling the perpetrator. Please do better and name the person!!”