Actor Jeremy Renner has denied a series of allegations raised by filmmaker Yi Zhou, including that he sent her unsolicited sexual messages and threatened to call US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on the Chinese writer-director.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe allegations are totally inaccurate and untrue,\u201d a representative for Renner told People magazine.<\/p>\n
Zhou, who says she worked with Renner on both the documentary Chronicles of Disney as well as an animated film, came forward with her allegations against the 54-year-old Marvel star in a series of social media posts over the past few days.<\/p>\n
She said Renner introduced himself to her \u201cout of the blue\u201d in June with a string of \u201cunwanted\u201d images via WhatsApp and direct messages, \u201cbehaviour that, according to public reports, he has exhibited before\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe convinced me of his sincerity, saying he had been single for a long time and [was] open to a long-term relationship,\u201d she said. \u201cI believed in him, in the power of love and in the possibility of redemption.\u201d<\/p>\n
Zhou went on to allege that Renner later \u201centered into written agreements\u201d with her production company to be involved in the projects, but then \u201crefused\u201d to promote the films. Instead, he denied \u201cany personal relation[ship] or professional collaboration\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I called him out privately about his past misconduct and asked him to behave properly, to respect me as a woman and as a filmmaker, he threatened to call immigration\/ICE on me, an act that deeply shocked and frightened me,\u201d Zhou wrote, adding that the \u201cmisinformation and intimidation\u201d caused her \u201cpersonal and reputational harm\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor Jeremy Renner has denied a series of allegations raised by filmmaker Yi Zhou, including that he sent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,97805,18,117,9973,19,876,17,12907,4192,93457,97806,1889,237,97804,4635,73945],"class_list":{"0":"post-171153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-chronicles-of-disney","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ice","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-instagram","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-jeremy-renner","17":"tag-july","18":"tag-june","19":"tag-marty-singer","20":"tag-marvel","21":"tag-people","22":"tag-reno","23":"tag-whatsapp","24":"tag-yi-zhou"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115519020414437487","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}