Gretchen Carlson: 'Women Should Not Have to Face This, In the Workplace, Period'
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Gretchen Carlson and Laurie Luhn appeared on ABC’s 20/20 on Friday night to talk frankly about their respective experiences being sexually assaulted by disgraced Fox News head and former Trump adviser Roger Ailes, a man as rapaciously predatory as he is malignantly repulsive. Both stories are hard to swallow under normal circumstances; framed in the context of Trump’s America, they become all but unbearable. It was Carlson’s first televised interview since the network settled with her for $20 million in September.
The former Fox anchor, poised in a green sweater in her Greenwich, Connecticut home across from Good Morning America’s Amy Robach, recounted the beginnings of what would eventually become a parade of instances of sexual assault: The high-powered PR exec (still a high-powered PR exec!), the local news photographer who made comments about her breasts while she was locked with him in a news van. Like many women, she decided to say nothing.
“I’d only been in this job for a couple months, and I didn’t want to make waves,” she said. She eventually told her news director, but only after he’d asked her what was wrong, repeatedly.