The Washington Post continued the parade of sexual harasser outings by documenting EIGHT women who said that PBS’s Charlie Rose sexually harassed them.
Eight women have told The Washington Post that longtime television host Charlie Rose made unwanted sexual advances toward them, including lewd phone calls, walking around naked in their presence, or groping their breasts, buttocks or genital areas.
The women were employees or aspired to work for Rose at the “Charlie Rose” show from the late 1990s to as recently as 2011. They ranged in age from 21 to 37 at the time of the alleged encounters. Rose, 75, whose show airs on PBS, also co-hosts “CBS This Morning” and is a contributing correspondent for “60 Minutes.”
Wow. That’s one guy I would not have thought would be wrangled up in the sexual harassment public manhunt.
Here’s one of the stories:
Kyle Godfrey-Ryan, one of Rose’s assistants in the mid-2000s, recalled at least a dozen instances where Rose walked nude in front of her while she worked in one of his New York City homes. He also repeatedly called the then-21-year-old late at night or early in the morning to describe his fantasies of her swimming naked in the Bellport pool as he watched from his bedroom, she said.
“It feels branded into me, the details of it,” Godfrey-Ryan said.
And here’s his response:
“In my 45 years in journalism, I have prided myself on being an advocate for the careers of the women with whom I have worked,” Rose said in a statement provided to The Post. “Nevertheless, in the past few days, claims have been made about my behavior toward some former female colleagues.
“It is essential that these women know I hear them and that I deeply apologize for my inappropriate behavior. I am greatly embarrassed. I have behaved insensitively at times, and I accept responsibility for that, though I do not believe that all of these allegations are accurate. I always felt that I was pursuing shared feelings, even though I now realize I was mistaken.
“I have learned a great deal as a result of these events, and I hope others will too. All of us, including me, are coming to a newer and deeper recognition of the pain caused by conduct in the past, and have come to a profound new respect for women and their lives.”
Stick a fork in him, that dude is done.
And now the awkward moments dug up by internet sleuths:
Video: @CharlieRose covering the Harvey Weinstein story, reading the hotel shower part that's almost identical to what HE was doing #Awkward pic.twitter.com/3RsDS9JqgY
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 20, 2017
FLASHBACK @CBSThisMorning from 04/21/16 -> @CharlieRose offers to spank @NorahODonnell after watching a viral video on a spanking lemur #TTT pic.twitter.com/i1oP1HS9eo
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 20, 2017