News shows actress accusing Melhem of asking for oral sex to support him after complaints
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After revealing messages exchanged between former Globo director Marcius Melhem and comedian Dani Calabresa, UOL columnist Ricardo Feltrin also had access to WhatsApp conversations between the comedian and an actress who has worked at the channel since 2015 and with whom he had a casual relationship. Like Calabresa, the actress whose identity has not been revealed has sued Melhem for sexual harassment and abusive conduct.
According to Feltrin, talks between Melhem and the actress took place between 2017 and 2020, before she testified to civilian police. The material is in secret from the judiciary.
Like Dani Calabresa, the actress filed complaints with Globo and the Special Police Station for Women’s Aid between late 2019 and early 2020. She is among seven women who have accused the former director of sexual harassment and harassment, an abusive relationship, abuse of power, inappropriate behavior and embarrassment.
According to Feltrin, the actress was the one who accused Melhem of asking her for oral sex, as previously reported by Piauí magazine. She would have told police that she and the former director of Globo began an abusive relationship from the night they had intercourse. The actress also said that the comedian said she had no talent and blocked jobs she was invited to do.
In addition, Feltrin said the actress told the delegate prosecuting the case that she was being intimidated or forced into a relationship that she didn’t want but didn’t respond for fear of damaging her career.
She also accused Melhem of starting a WhatsApp group called “Sex” the morning after their first intercourse in order to humiliate her and tell his assistant that they had sex. According to Feltrin’s column, the group was formed by the actress on the morning of July 24, 2018. Melhem and her assistant were in this group and they received the first message sent by the actress:
“If you’re in that group, it’s because we think it’s considered good manners for you to know there was drunk sex (at one of the parties) yesterday. We ask for discretion for obvious reasons. Good morning!!! (happy face and sun emojis).”
Women named by the actress deny harassment
The actress accuses Melhem of sexually harassing two other women. But when heard by authorities, one of them denied it happened, while the other told the UOL columnist that she had not been molested and that the relationship was consensual.
play and intimacy
According to Feltrin, the messages will also be used by Melhem’s defense to prove the intimacy between him and the actress accusing him. Between 2017 and 2018, the messages are affectionate and they treat each other as friends, but that changes in early 2018 when the two became closer and traveled together for leisure, only to have a sexual relationship a few months later.
One of the messages exchanged on July 28, 2019 shows jokes between the two with sexual content:
Actress: If I moved part of your anatomy while you were sleeping, would you report me to the police?
Better: Hahahahahahahahahhmm no
Actress: This is of course a purely hypothetical question!
Better: Hahahahaha of course.
In 2019 the situation changed. Friends of the two told the columnist the actress suspected the end of their relationship and learned that the exdirector would be traveling with his exwife and daughters. In messages exchanged on August 17 this year, she says:
Actress: You can talk all the time when we eat but you can’t kiss (me) in front of people?
Better: I know. But I feel pressured, you know. (if) we meet and stay forever, to me it’s a date
Actress: I understand
Better: I wanted everything to be easier. But I weigh myself. The play begins
Actress: It’s hard for me to see how you stack up with other people. So I think it’s ok that we keep dating when we’re together (…) But I understand you. Leave it, little boy.
Better: No, let’s talk better.
Actress: I will Always Love You. Good game.
The actress supported Melhem after complaints
As also disclosed by Feltrin, on February 3, 2020, when allegations of harassment against Melhem became public, the actress sent messages of support to him:
Actress: are you really sick What do you have? I am anxious. I’ve never seen you miss the shot
Better: I am nervous. Today I learned that Dani gets people talking and there are people unrelated to the case, which helps give strength to those who want to speak up about me. They’re going to want me to be Zé Mayer
Actress: Crap. Who to join? How can? You are innocent dear. Are you sure? It’s pointless, dear.
Better: I’m from Daniel. But I gave up, right: I was invasive, as you say
Actress: I think they are engaging in terrorism with you (…) Keep calm. Come be with your people.
Better: I can not.
Actress: oh my love I don’t know what to say. Love I’m sure nothing will happen. It has three cats against it and many people on its side.
Better: I don’t know if it’s 3. I don’t know if people will withdraw. Being by my side can be bad for people. Maybe I have to burn. If it transpires, standing by my side in front of public opinion will be a hero thing. mainly women
Better: If someone I met shows up, or I understand that I hurt myself and that I didn’t even realize it, I really want to apologize, come out. Not Dani, because hers is a frame. But it would be exactly the women I need support from. And I don’t know who would do that. I can’t ask anyone.
Actress: My love, my support you know you have. And I don’t give a fuck about public opinion. But I insist that it will not come to that. I’m sure it’s a Marola. I think it’s a lie. Some kind of terrorism.
Better: support disappears. I know I’ve built a network of affection. Of the love. Not from complaining.
Actress: Nothing will happen. I promise you
Better: there’s no way you can promise.
Actress: Now I’m in agony because I feel you in agony
Better: I fired and upset a lot of people. I’ve flirted in the past. When I take it all and add it all up, I don’t know anymore. I’m going to the psychiatrist in the morning. I can not stand it anymore. love you very much
According to the columnist, the actress went to Melhem’s house the next day, and about a week later she opened up about a health issue and walked away from him.