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Dr. Wendy Walsh Accuses Fox’s Bill O’Reilly of Sexual Harassment

HeadlineApr 04, 2017

Also on Monday, television commentator Dr. Wendy Walsh came forward to accuse Fox News star Bill O’Reilly of sexually harassing her and then retaliating against her professionally when she rejected him. This is Dr. Walsh, describing what happened after O’Reilly offered her a job at Fox News over dinner.

Dr. Wendy Walsh: “So when dinner was finished, he simply said, ’Let’s get out of here.’ I assumed he meant that we should move to the bar to continue our conversation about my career at Fox News. And so he caught up with me and said, 'No, no. Come back to my suite.' At that point, you know, I’m a woman of a certain age, I’ve had situations like this in my life, I knew how to behave. And I simply said, ’I’m sorry, I can’t do that.’ And he immediately got defensive and said, 'What do you mean? You think I'm going to attack you or something?’ And then, very soon after, he had the executive producer of the show call me and say that they’re going to take a break from the segment for a little while, but they’d start up again later. Well, they did with the other psychologist, but not me. But I knew it was coming.”

That was television commentator Dr. Wendy Walsh. Her testimony comes after The New York Times revealed Saturday that Fox News and O’Reilly have paid out $13 million to five other women who have accused O’Reilly of sexual harassment. On Sunday, The Wall Street Journal reported Fox News recently renewed O’Reilly’s contract. In response to the revelations, Mercedes-Benz and Hyundai both announced they were pulling current or upcoming advertisements from “The O’Reilly Factor.”

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