演员德里克·迪克逊周二在对媒体大亨提起诉讼后首次接受电视采访时直言不讳泰勒·佩里他分享了自己遭受这位亿万富翁性骚扰和性侵犯的指控。
迪克森在6月份对佩里提起了2.6亿美元的诉讼，他与美国广播公司新闻直播主播林西·戴维斯(Linsey Davis)坐下来讨论了他与这位媒体大亨之间据称复杂的历史，他说他不想“再对此保持沉默”，尽管“这是一件容易谈论的事情”。
“这很难，”迪克森说。“围绕着它有很多耻辱。只是努力思考你本可以做得更好，并不得不判断你本可以在没有那种情况下更好地结束它。”
佩里制作了24部故事片、20部舞台剧、17部电视节目和两本《纽约时报》畅销书，拥有美国最大的电影工作室之一泰勒·佩里工作室，根据他的网站，他还获得了亿万富翁俱乐部的席位。这位大亨还获得了Jean Hersholt人道主义奖，以表彰他对全美有色人种协进会的大规模捐赠。
迪克森说，他第一次见到佩里是在2019年的一个工作室开幕派对上，当时他在一家活动公司工作。据迪克森说，佩里问他是不是演员，给了他电话号码，并说“我们会谈谈这个。”
2020年初，迪克森在佩里的赌博系列“The Oval”中饰演“戴尔”，在2021年至2025年间出现了85集——他说这是他“一直梦想”的职业生涯。
根据民事诉状，当迪克森在节目中工作时，佩里开始给他发短信，其中一些是性信息。
“其中一个人说，‘怎样才能让你拥有无罪恶感的性行为?你们在治疗中发现了吗?我希望你能让别人抱着你，和你做爱，”迪克森说。
在给美国广播公司新闻的一份声明中，佩里的律师马修·博伊德说，“这个人接近泰勒·佩里，现在看来只不过是设置了一个骗局。”
律师补充说:“泰勒不会被动摇，我们相信这些捏造的骚扰指控将会失败。”
2020年1月，迪克森声称佩里的身体行为据称开始类似于他短信的语气，迪克森说，一次据称的事件发生在他在大亨的招待所喝酒时。
该诉讼称，迪克森说，佩里让他呆在客房，而不是开车回家，这是他说这次遭遇出现转机的时候。
“我上了床，然后我注意到他也爬上了我的床，开始揉我的腿。我跳下床...他说，“转过身来，让我看看你”，然后评论我的样子。然后他就起身走了。所以我想在那件事之后，很明显我对那种类型的关系不感兴趣，”迪克森告诉ABC新闻。
然后，在《椭圆形办公室》(The Oval)第二季的结尾，迪克森饰演的角色胸部被打了四枪，他说这让他意识到“如果我不能让他开心，我可能会在节目中死去。”
在他们拍完那场戏后，迪克森声称佩里邀请他在他的拖车里喝酒，迪克森说佩里据称问他是否“被他吸引”
迪克森说，他试图缓和局势，他说，他告诉这位大亨，他是一个“有吸引力的人”，但他不感兴趣，这是他声称事件变成了肢体冲突。
“那时候他把我推倒在墙上，又抓了我一把**。我记得离开他的拖车后，马上给我的朋友打电话，对此我感到很不舒服，”迪克森说。
迪克森和佩里之间的另一次事件据称发生在2021年6月，当时迪克森声称自己在佩里位于亚特兰大的家中。
起诉书称，在那次访问中，这位大亨据称“为自己制作了几杯酒精饮料，并要求知道为什么迪克森没有与任何人发生性关系”。
诉状称，佩里继续提出问题，并“坚持认为两人越来越醉，是时候结束这个夜晚了”。
起诉书说，这位大亨然后带迪克森到客房的浴室——迪克森将在那里过夜——佩里“示意迪克森来看看他的体重监测器”。
根据迪克森的说法，佩里随后告诉迪克森需要“穿着你的内衣来测量”
他伸手把我的内裤拉下来，抓住我的a**我试图阻止他，把我的内裤拉回来，他抓住我的胳膊说，'不，不，不，没关系，就这样吧。'我说，‘停下，我不想裸体，’”迪克森说。
他说他在那一刻“不知道该做什么”,并试图分散注意力，缓解局势，迪克森说他最终把自己一个人锁在了客房的浴室里。
这位演员说，他在2024年春天结束了与佩里的交流，他决定在2024年9月离开“椭圆形”。他还说，《迷失》(lost It)是他写的一部电视剧，这位大亨拥有该剧的版权，除了试播之外，这部剧从未被开发过。
随后在1月份，迪克森向美国平等就业机会委员会(u . s . Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)提出了申诉，该委员会是一个负责保护工人免受歧视的联邦机构。
迪克森说，他在随后的诉讼中提出了2.6亿美元的赔偿金，原因有两个:“这个数字的一部分是我失去的工作，我失去的收入，一场演出的损失。另一方面是一种威慑，你如何阻止一个不会阻止自己这么做的亿万富翁。”
迪克森说，他希望佩里“对所发生的事情负责”，这场诉讼教会了他“不要这样对待你的员工，永远不要利用别人的梦想来强迫他们建立一种不专业的关系。”
当被问及公正时，迪克森说这将“看起来像是在想我已经做出了改变，这样的事情不会发生在为他工作的另一个演员或业内的另一个演员身上。那对我来说是正义的。”
Actor who accused Tyler Perry of sexual assault speaks out in 1st on-camera interview since filing lawsuit
Actor Derek Dixon spoke out Tuesday in his first television interview since filing a lawsuit against media mogulTyler Perry, sharing allegations of sexual harassment and assault he says he endured from the billionaire.
Dixon, who filed a $260 million lawsuit against Perry in June, sat down with ABC News Live anchor Linsey Davis to discuss his allegedly complicated history with the media mogul, saying he did not "want to stay silent about it anymore" even though "it's a vulnerable thing to talk about."
"It's been hard," Dixon said. "There's a lot of shame around it. Just trying to think what you could have done better and having to deal with the judgment of how you could've ended it better without being in that situation."
Perry, who has produced 24 feature films, 20 stage plays, 17 television shows and two New York Times best-selling books, owns one of the largest film studios in the country, Tyler Perry Studios, and has also earned a spot in the billionaire's club, according to his website. The mogul also received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for his support through large-scale donations to the NAACP.
Dixon says he first met Perry at a studio opening party in 2019 while he was working at an events company. According to Dixon, Perry asked him if he was an actor, gave him his number and said "we'll talk about this."
In early 2020, Dixon landed the role as "Dale" in Perry's BET series "The Oval," appearing in 85 episodes between 2021 to 2025 -- a career move that he said was something "he always dreamed about."
According to the civil complaint, when Dixon was working on the show, Perry began sending text messages to him, with some being sexual in nature.
"One of them says, 'What's it going to take for you to have guiltless sex? Have y'all found that in therapy yet? I would hope that you would let someone hold and make love to you,'" Dixon said.
In a statement to ABC News, Perry's lawyer Matthew Boyd said "this is an individual who got close to Tyler Perry for what now appears to be nothing more than setting up a scam."
The attorney added: "Tyler will not be shaken down and we are confident these fabricated claims of harassment will fail."
In January 2020, Dixon claims Perry's physical behavior allegedly started resembling the tone of his text messages, with Dixon saying one alleged incident occurred when he was having drinks at the mogul's guest house.
Instead of driving home that night, Dixon said Perry told him to stay in the guest quarters, which is when he said the encounter took a turn, the lawsuit alleges.
"I got into bed and then I noticed that he climbed into bed with me as well and started rubbing my leg. I jumped out of bed...he had said, 'Turn around so I can look at you' and just comment on how I looked. And then he got up and left. So I thought after that instance, it was pretty clear that I was not interested in that type of a relationship," Dixon told ABC News.
Then, at the end of the second season of "The Oval," Dixon's character was shot four times in the chest, which he said made him realize "if I don't make him happy, I could stay dead on the show."
After they had finished shooting that scene, Dixon claims Perry invited him to have drinks in his trailer, where Dixon said Perry allegedly asked if he "was attracted to him."
Dixon, in what he said was an attempt to de-escalate the situation, said he told the mogul he was an "attractive man" but he was not interested, which is when he claims the incident became physical.
"That's when he pushed me up against the wall and grabbed my a** again. I remember leaving his trailer and calling my friend immediately and just feeling sick about it," Dixon said.
Another incident between Dixon and Perry allegedly occurred in June 2021, when Dixon claims he was at Perry's home in Atlanta.
During that visit, the mogul allegedly made "several alcoholic beverages for himself and demanded to know why Dixon was not having sex with anyone," the complaint said.
Perry continued to probe with questions and "insisted that the two were becoming increasingly drunk and it was time to end the night," according to the complaint.
The mogul then led Dixon to the bathroom of the guest house -- where Dixon would be spending the night -- when Perry "motioned to Dixon to come see a weight monitor that he had," the complaint said.
According to Dixon, Perry then told Dixon needed to be "in your underwear to measure."
He reached down andpulled my underwear down and grabbed my a** and I tried to stop him and pull back my underwear up and he grabbed my arms and said, 'No, no, no, it's OK, just go with it.' I said, 'Stop, I don't want to be naked,'" Dixon said.
He said he "didn't know what to do" in that moment and attempted to distract and de-escalate the situation, with Dixon he saying he eventually locked himself alone in the guesthouse bathroom.
The actor said he ended communication with Perry in the spring of 2024 and he decided to leave "The Oval" in September 2024. He also said "Losing It," a show he had been writing that the mogul owns the rights to, was never developed beyond the pilot.
Then in January, Dixon filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal agency responsible for protecting workers from discrimination.
Dixon said he came up with the amount of $260 million in damages for for his subsequent lawsuit for two reasons: "Part of that number is my lost job, my lost income, the loss of a show. The other part of that is a deterrent for how do you stop a billionaire who won't stop themselves from doing this."
Dixon said he hopes Perry takes "accountability for what happened" and that the lawsuit taught him to "not treat your employees this way and to never use someone's dream to coerce them into a relationship that's not professional."
When asked about justice, Dixon said it would "look like thinking I've made a change and that something like this won't happen to another actor that works for him or another actor in the industry. That would be justice for me."
