Terry Crews’ daughter Azriél Patricia Crews is recalling a confronting experience she had with a famous actor when she was a teenager.
Azriél, who Terry shares with wife Rebecca King-Crews, took to Instagram on Friday, January 23 to share a story about how she was “hit on by a creepy actor at a celebrity wedding” when she was 16.
In the two-part video, Azriél, 35, did not name the actor in question but detailed what occurred at the star-studded nuptials.
Azriél explained that she was initially introduced to the actor at a pre-wedding event by her parents, who already knew him.
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“My mom introduced me to him as her 16-year-old, so he was very well aware of my age and he was friendly at first and I was a fan of his work so I was actually really excited to meet him. At first,” Azriél said.
However, Azriél said things began to take a turn at the wedding itself when the actor took it upon himself to sit next to her during the ceremony.
“We arrived at the ceremony and we found some seats which were unassigned but then, as if on cue, creepy actor slides into the seat next to me and he says, ‘Funny meeting you here.’ As if he didn’t intentionally choose that seat. They weren’t assigned. That was my first official red flag,” she recalled.
After moving to a new venue for the reception following the ceremony Azriél was seated at a table with her parents.
“I want to sit back and enjoy my evening when all of a sudden, who sits next to me? But the creepy actor. Somehow his name was on the placecard next to mine which… coincidence? I’ll never know. So then he leans over to me and says, ‘Well hello again.’” she said.
She continued, “Suddenly I feel a hand caress the back of my arm and so I turn to him and he’s smiling at me creepily and he says, ‘Are you enjoying yourself?’ So I said, ‘Yes’ and he goes, ‘Well, don’t act too civilized.’ And that was when I realized that his knee was pressed against my knee under the table. And that is when I turned to my mother and I said I need to go to the bathroom now.”
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When she reached the bathroom, Azriél informed her mom of the situation happening back at the table
“My mother immediately believed me and being the Christian woman that she is, held my hands and started praying with me in the bathroom. We prayed that he would leave us alone because we didn’t want to have to tell my father and cause a scene at this big star-studded event,” Azriél said. “And when we got back to the table, miraculously he was gone. Was it an answer to prayer? Possibly. Or it was the fact he realized he had gone too far. We never saw him for the rest of the night.”
Azriél shared that she then had a really fun time for the rest of the night and noted that this actor has “publicly disgraced himself many many times” in the years since.
