VIDEO : Reese Witherspoon And Jennifer Lawrence Reveal Abuse

Oscar winners Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Lawrence used their speeches at a Hollywood event honoring women to detail experiences of assault and harassment at the hands of directors and producers and pledged to do more to stop such situations from happening. Witherspoon said she had "true disgust at the director who assaulted me when I was 16 years old and anger at the agents and the producers who made me feel that silence was a condition of my employment." Witherspoon didn't name the director. When she tried to speak up about the demands, Lawrence said she couldn't find a sympathetic ear from those in power.