The popular motivational speaker Tony Robbins has been forced to issue an apology about his comments on the Me Too movement, after a video went viral of a sexual abuse survivor confronting him at his speech last month, after Robbins claimed women use the Me Too movement to gain significance by playing the victim. This is a clip of the video, in which Nanine McCool confronts Tony Robbins.

Tony Robbins: “I’m not knocking the Me Too movement. I’m knocking victimhood. Raise your hand if you follow me. And I’m not suggesting you have to agree with me. I’m just suggesting you consider what its impact is. Look at these people, and see what is empowerment. Anger is not empowerment. What you’re seeing is people making themselves significant by making somebody else wrong and getting certainty. And there’s nothing wrong with that. It just won’t make them happy.”

Nanine McCool: “You are a leader and an influential man.”

Tony Robbins: “Yes.”

Nanine McCool: “And you are doing a disservice, in my opinion, to the Me Too movement. You are doing a disservice to the Me Too movement.”

Tony Robbins: “I can’t do a disservice, because every woman in this room that believes whatever she believes will continue to do it.”

Nanine McCool: “It’s not just about what women believe. It’s about what people believe. Just as you were talking to me as a man to a woman, I’m not talking to you as a woman to a man. I’m talking to you person to person.”

Tony Robbins: “I understand. What are you telling me different from what I said? I told you some people misuse it, and you’re telling me you don’t. I’m not saying you do.”

Nanine McCool: “But you characterized the entire movement.”

Tony Robbins: “I didn’t attack the movement. I said some people misuse it.”

Nanine McCool: “Because that’s what I heard.”

After widespread outrage, Robbins issued a statement reading, in part, “My comments failed to reflect the respect I have for everything Tarana Burke and the #MeToo movement has achieved. I apologize for suggesting anything other than my profound admiration for the #MeToo movement.”