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In an essay for the Boston Globe, the actress describes her treatment on the set of the show, the network's retaliation and her conditions for settlement.

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00:00Eliza Dushku has offered more insight into the event

00:03surrounding the $9.5 million settlement

00:06she was paid by CBS after reporting sexual harassment

00:09on the set of the network's show, Bull.

00:11I don't understand.

00:12The man who lost that money gambling

00:14and the man who got 100 million wired to him

00:16within minutes of the blast are the same man.

00:19In an op-ed for the Boston Globe published Wednesday,

00:21Dushku claims that Bull star Michael Weatherly

00:24and showrunner Glenn Gordon Caron

00:26have pushed a deceptive narrative

00:28and retaliated against her for simply asking

00:31to do my job without relentless sexual harassment.

00:33An initial New York Times report published last week,

00:36Dushku levied allegations against Weatherly

00:38of constant sexual harassment while on set,

00:41including the actor saying he would pull her over his knee

00:43and spank her in front of the cast and crew.

00:45When the actors brought the allegations to CBS,

00:48she says she was offered the $9.5 million settlement

00:50to exit the show.

00:51Dushku wrote in her Globe op-ed,

00:53this is not a he said, she said case.

00:56Weatherly's behavior was captured

00:57on CBS's own videotape recordings.

00:59The actor said she declined an interview for the Times piece

01:02to honor the terms of my settlement with the network,

01:05but says that Weatherly and Caron,

01:07who have both commented on the allegations,

01:09issued statements that amounted to more deflection,

01:12denial and spin.

01:14Dushku said she went to Weatherly directly with her complaints

01:17about his behavior to make him an ally,

01:19but as she learned later during her settlement hearings,

01:22Weatherly had texted CBS TV president David Staff

01:25shortly after her initial meeting to essentially ask Dushku

01:28be written off the show.

01:29The actress also levied blame on the showrunner,

01:31who she said wrote me off the show

01:33within 48 hours of my complaints about Weatherly.

01:36For more on this story, head to THR.com.

01:38Until next time, for The Hollywood Reporter News,

01:41I'm Tiffany Taylor.

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