'Reacher' star Alan Ritchson says modeling industry is 'legalized sex trafficking'
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- The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) April 3, 2024
Best known for his work on Amazon Prime’s “Reacher,” the 41-year-old Hollywood actor opened up about his experience working in an industry in which, he claimed, "sexual abuse was the goal"
"There are very few redeeming qualities to working in [the modeling] industry. Let’s be honest, it’s like legalized sex trafficking," said Ritchson, who modeled for Abercrombie & Fitch and various catalog projects. "The industry is not regulated, and it’s a widely known secret that if you’re hired on a job, you’re basically being passed off to a photographer to be trafficked. The number of times and situations where I was put in horrific environments where sexual abuse was the goal, and the paycheck that you were desperate for in order to survive was the carrot, I can’t count on two hands. It was quite often."
Alan revealed on Wednesday that he was sexually assaulted by a “very famous photographer” during his modeling days, which led him to quit the industry altogether.
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