Grace Van Dien, ‘Stranger Things’ actress, reveals alleged sexual harassment by movie producer

Grace Van Dien has been postpone by the leisure business.

Having grown up as Hollywood royalty, the great-granddaughter of film legend Robert Mitchum, the 26-year-old has treaded an identical, although extra fashionable, path into performing —first as a actuality TV star together with her well-known household at age 9 and extra lately in Stranger Issues. However she’s now “turning down performing tasks” after experiencing sexual harassment within the office.

In a stay video on the gaming streaming service Twitch, Van Dien, who performed cheerleader Chrissy Cunningham in Season 4 of the hit Netflix present, stated, “The actual fact of the matter is, the previous couple of tasks I’ve labored on I didn’t have the most effective experiences with a few of the individuals I needed to work for.”

She stated whereas making a latest film, “one of many producers,” whom she did not identify, “employed a lady that he was sleeping with after which he had her ask me to have a threesome with them. So, like, that is my boss.”

Van Dien stated she refused, however “I cried” and “was so upset” by the unhealthy office expertise.

She stated she’s going to concentrate on Twitch streaming proper now as an alternative of recent performing roles. On the platform, she streams herself taking part in movies video games, together with Fortnite and others and has constructed a following over 200,000.

She later added on Twitter, “As I become old, my work priorities are altering.” She stated she’s now “ready for the suitable mission” with “the suitable individuals” earlier than leaping into one thing new. She added, “It is good to really feel calm.”

Van Dien, the daughter of Casper Van Dien and Carrie Mitchum, who cut up when she was a child, appeared together with her father and then-stepmother, Catherine Oxenberg, within the 2005 actuality present I Married a Princess. She went on to seem together with her dad and Oxenberg in 2014’s Sleeping Magnificence, after which had many small roles in TV reveals and movies. In 2017, she landed a starring position in Netflix’s tween drama Greenhouse Academy, which she performed till 2019 — the identical 12 months she appeared on NBC’s The Village. She additionally performed Sharon Tate within the 2018 movie Charlie Says. Since 2020, Van Dien has made about seven completely different movies, principally impartial ones.