Morgan Freeman has been accused of harassment and inappropriate behaviour by multiple women in a report by CNN.

The women include production assistants and workers who interacted with Freeman on movie sets and entertainment journalists, including CNN’s own reporter Chloe Melas and a journalist from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. In total, 16 women spoke to the publication: eight of the people interviewed identified themselves as victims, while eight others said they had witnessed the alleged misconduct.

One of the women was a production assistant on 2015’s Going in Style, who alleged that Freeman would rub her lower back or rest his hand there. He “kept trying to lift up my skirt and asking if I was wearing underwear,” she told CNN, adding that Freeman never succeeded as she would always do her best to move out of his reach.

Eventually, “Alan [Arkin, Freeman’s costar in the film] made a comment telling him to stop,” she said. “Morgan got freaked out and didn’t know what to say.”

Another woman who worked on a recent movie of Freeman’s told of an incident at the film’s wrap party.

“He was looking at my breasts, and I told him, ‘My eyes are up here,’” she recalled. “Then we went to take a group photo and he pressed himself up against me. It was inappropriate.”

Morgan Freeman has been accused of sexual harassment by eight women