Kate Beckinsale reveals horrific experiences she's had on set over the years as woman working in Hollywood: 'It's just got to stop'

English actress Kate Beckinsale has detailed some of her horrific experiences on set over the years as a woman working in Hollywood.

The star, 51, known for films including Underworld, Pearl Harbour, Van Helsing and Serendipity, shared a lengthy video with followers on Instagram in light of Blake Lively's lawsuit against her It Ends With Us co-star and director Justin Baldoni. Baldoni is reportedly set to file a counterclaim against Lively.

Beckinsale alleged, without naming names or saying what sets she was on, that she had been called a "c--t" on one set when her co-star would be "drunk every day" and said she was put into an "unsafe fight situation" on two different sets.

She claimed she once had to do a photoshoot a day after suffering a miscarriage and at age 18 was "felt up by somebody" on a set.

Watch the video above.

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Kate Beckinsale has detailed some of her horrific experiences on set over the years. (katebeckinsale/Instagram)

"Everyone in EVERY industry should be taken seriously and not punished when something egregious happens to them at work," she captioned her video.

In the clip, and speaking about Lively's lawsuit, she said she doesn't know either star but said: "I can't speak to any of that, but what I will say is, what it's highlighted is this machine that goes into effect when a woman complains about something legitimately offensive, upsetting and harmful in this industry."

"I've been on a film for example where I was by the end of it, referred to over a walkie talkie and to my face as 'that c--t', because I had said, 'I'm finding it very difficult, my co-star is drunk every day...'"

She said she was waiting six hours a day while he "learned his lines", which meant she then couldn't see her daughter at night. 

She claimed the studio gave her a bike to ride around the studio lot while waiting as a solution.

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She said she had been called a "c--t" on one set and was put into an "unsafe fight situation" on two different sets. (Getty)

Beckinsale said she was put into an "unsafe fight situation" on two different film sets with two different actors.

"Sometimes there's a certain kind of actor who gets kind of a thrill out of legally being able to harm a woman during a fight sequence," she claimed.

"And I was harmed, to the point where there were MRIs proving it. And actually what happened was I was gaslit and made to feel like I was the problem, blamed and ostracised, and left out of cast dinners, not spoken to, as soon as I mentioned there was a problem."

She said she once was "forced by a publicist" she hired to do a photoshoot "the day after I had a miscarriage".

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Beckinsale claimed she once had to do a photoshoot a day after suffering a miscarriage. (Instagram)

"I said, 'I can't. I'm bleeding. I don't want to go and change my clothes in front of people I don't know and do a photoshoot. I'm bleeding out a miscarriage."

"And she was like, 'You have to, or you'll be sued.'"

Beckinsale says she went to two actresses on set at the age of 18 when she was "felt up by somebody that I really trusted on a crew" and they didn't believe her.

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She added that she's "grateful to Blake Lively for highlighting the fact that this is not an archaic problem that no one's facing. This is continuing".

"Then when it does happen, a machine goes into place to absolutely destroy you. And I'm sure that's the case in other industries as well. And it's just got to stop," Beckinsale finished.

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