“I am broken and in pain,” actress Noa Koller sadly wrote today (Friday) on her Instagram account, in response to testimonies against co-creator of the “Rehearsals” series, Erez Driggs.
“Erez Driggs is my friend and partner for work and creativity. I was unaware of his intimate, disturbing and sexual behaviors at any level. This is not our kind of relationship. We lead separate personal lives and respect each other’s privacy, certainly when it comes to sexuality,” she wrote.
The story was discovered and spread like wildfire after an investigation by the website “Politically Calls”, which published testimonies of four women claiming that the actor and director Erez Dragis sexually harassed them. According to the findings of the investigation, he conducted inappropriate and blatant sexual correspondence with them over the years via the Facebook messenger, some of whom were even minors at the time. The investigation was carried out following a post that journalist Ophir Sagersky posted on her Facebook about three weeks ago, in which she revealed that watching “rehearsals” raises triggers for messages with sexual content that Driggs used to send her.
Koller also wrote in the post: “What I did know was that 4 years ago, while writing ‘Rehearsals’, Erez called me in for a conversation and confessed that he was addicted to sex in recovery. I tried to understand in depth what that means, and he shared with me that he goes to SAA support group “Having a psychiatrist, a psychologist and a companion with him is in daily contact,” she said.
She added: “I asked him if he had committed a criminal or violent act against anyone and he told me never, and that all his sexual interactions were always legal and with full consent, and also asked me to include a sex addict in the series, as part of recovery and to provoke public discourse.”
She also wrote about her partner: “Sexual assault is a very serious thing that I strongly condemn. My heart aches for the victims. Erez behaved in an abusive and violent manner that I was not aware of. The details revealed broke me, it is not Erez I know, and I still have a hard time digesting.
“I encourage women and men who have been harmed, to speak and expose the cases and traumas. The change that is happening is a welcome and very important change. It is important to me personally as a woman and as a mother. I think it is important that Erez takes full responsibility for his past actions and cares for himself for many years. “, She wrote.
On the continuation of the series, for which another season is expected, she wrote: “I want to believe that a person can change his ways, and at the same time I do not know if there is and what is the way to relieve the victims. Regarding the continuation of ‘rehearsals’ I have nothing to say at the moment. “It’s important, and I really ran out of words. The work is not as important as life. I embrace all the partners in the work who are in pain with me.”