The actor-filmmaker is calling stunt performer Devyn LaBella’s allegations against him "a blatant lie"
- Kevin Costner filed a new motion to strike stunt performer Devyn LaBella’s complaint against him, which alleged sexual harassment
- LaBella alleged she was made to participate in an unscripted rape scene in one of the actor-writer-director’s movies
- Costner called her claims “absolutely false” and “designed... to damage my reputation”
is speaking out amid a stunt performer’s on the set of his movie.
In a new motion to strike, filed in California Superior Court, the filmmaker, 70, insisted that Devyn LaBella’s claim of an unscripted rape scene on one of his is "a blatant lie."
The stunt performer initially filed a complaint against Costner and the production companies behind the film series in May. In June, she filed an amended complaint, in which LaBella’s lawyers her "shock, embarrassment and humiliation" after she allegedly "was never given the opportunity to prepare for or consent to participate" in an unplanned sex scene.
“Devyn's claims against me are absolutely false, and it is deeply disappointing to me that a woman who worked on our production would claim that I or any other member of my production team would make one of our own feel uncomfortable, let alone suffer the ‘nightmare’ she has invented,” wrote Costner in his new declaration.
“My belief is that Devyn's claims were designed, through the use of false statements and sensationalistic language, to damage my...
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