'Orange Is The New Black' star Yael Stone has alleged that Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush sexually harassed her on multiple occasions while they worked on a theatre production of The Diary of a Madman in 2010. In an interview with The New York Times, Stone said Rush sent her sexually suggestive messages, spied on her while she was taking a shower and exposed himself to her.The Australian actor said it was conflicting for her to come out against Rush, whom she considered a mentor and friend but said things were "weird" from the beginning of the rehearsals. She claims there were many "strange intimacies in the dressing room" that ranged from the then 59-year-old Rush asking her to remove his contact lenses, asking for help to remove his costume at intermission and joining her uninvited while she napped between the matinee and evening performances.
Stone also alleges Rush danced naked in front of her. In another incident, Stone told the Times that Rush held a mirror above the shower cubicle while she was showering. "I remember I looked up to see there was a small shaving mirror over the top of the partition between the showers and he was using it to look down at my naked body," Stone said.
Stone and Rush also texted a great deal, and that they gradually "became more sexual
in nature."