Actress says on Facebook she'll sue if she doesn't get it

Mar 1, 2012 09:59 GMT  ·  By
Before the arrest: Sean Young with Michelle Williams and Jonah Hill at the Oscars 2012
   Before the arrest: Sean Young with Michelle Williams and Jonah Hill at the Oscars 2012

After the 2012 Academy Awards, as all the big afterparties were about to start, actress Sean Young was arrested after slapping a guard. In a post on her Facebook page, she explains what happened and announces her intention to sue the Academy.

As we also reported at the time, Young spent 4 hours at the police station for slapping the guard, but she claims he manhandled her first, without the slightest provocation.

She says she was standing outside, at the entrance to the Governors Ball, when the guard started to rough her up. She, in response, slapped him and was then placed under citizen's arrest.

As per her Facebook post, she is due an apology from the Academy for the way she was treated, especially since it was one of its attorneys who instructed the guard to have her arrested.

She was not drunk, she was not behaving inappropriately and she didn't bother anyone until the guard picked on her, the star writes.

“I just want everyone to know that I was sober, extremely well behaved when a very stupid security guard went postal on me and then The Academy's very stupid lawyer recommended a 'private person's arrest' and I have grounds for a lawsuit against the Academy although I believe a public apology to me would be much better,” Young writes.

“I am OK and I have the Hollywood Police Stations support who very carefully and kindly photographed the bruises on my arms which this guard is responsible for doing,” she adds.

This is in line with what she also told paparazzi when she left the police station, and which came in contradiction to reports that were already making the rounds online.

According to various unconfirmed accounts, Young tried to crash the party twice and the guard was on to her.

The second time he saw her trying to get inside the Governors Ball, the Academy's exclusive Oscar afterparty, he grabbed her by the arm to remove her from the line, it was said.

That's not true, Young claimed all along. It's true that she was there, outside the venue, but she was talking to friends, taking pictures and had no intention of getting in.

As of now, the Academy has not addressed in any way the controversy, Young's arrest or her claim she deserves a public apology.