Sir Tom Jones says the film industry isn’t the only pocket of entertainment filled with abuse and harassment.
The “Daughter of Darkness” singer’s comments follow the countless sexual harassment allegations levied against studio executive Harvey Weinstein. Jones, 77, told the BBC, “things have always happened in the music industry as well.”
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“There’s been people complaining about publicists and different things they’ve been expected to do to get a record contract, just like a film contract,” he continued. “There were a few things like that. But you avoid it. You just walk out… But what’s tried on women is tried on men as well.”
When asked if had every witnessed abuse, Jones told BBC Radio 5 live’s “Afternoon Edition”: “Yes. At the beginning, yes.”
“You should know that yourself, you don’t do things just because you think, ‘I should do this.’ Your own mind will tell you that. Not just in show business, but in anything you’re in.”
He added: “There’s always been that element there that people with power sometimes abuse it, but they don’t all abuse it, there are good people.”
Addressing the allegations against Weinstein, Jones spoke to the cache 22-nature of show business.”Things happen in show business, and sometimes things are covered up and then they come to light and other people come forward – it’s like taking the cork off of a bottle,” he explained. “Things come out that maybe should’ve come out years ago, who knows.”
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“But that’s the way it is with show business, you are in the public eye, and that’s it, you have to take the good with the bad,” Jones continued.
The Grammy-winning singer wrapped up his thoughts on a hopeful note: “Justice will out. If you’ve done something wrong you’ve got to pay for it, or prove that you haven’t done anything wrong.”
