Sunday, 15 June 2025

Don Lemon Says Former CNN Colleagues S*xually Harassed Him, Twisted His Er*ct N*pples!

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Former CNN anchor Don Lemon alleged that former colleagues at the network sexually harassed him. 

Lemon, who didn’t identify specific individuals, made the claim on Bill Maher’s “Club Random” podcast.

From the New York Post:

During the two-hour conversation, Lemon claimed there were uncomfortable encounters involving both male and female colleagues.

“I’ve been harassed by women and men at work,” Lemon told Maher during the two-hour conversation.

“There are some things that are really egregious, but not everything is Harvey Weinstein-level,” he added, referring to the movie mogul who was sentenced to more than 30 years in prison after being convicted for numerous sexual assaults.

Lemon pointed to an interaction with one female CNN co-worker who approached him in the cafeteria of CNN’s Atlanta headquarters and pinched his nipples, joking, “Oh, it’s cold in here!”

The stunned anchor said he told her: “OK, you realize if I did that, they’d be walking me out the door right now?”

Despite feeling uncomfortable, Lemon said he decided not to report the incident to human resources, attributing his silence to a perceived double standard.

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Per USA TODAY:

Lemon then discussed the workplace dynamics at play of a woman who knew he was not heterosexual.

“I’ve never told this story as well, someone who I worked with also harassed me at CNN, and I never went to management. First of all, I was so new there — a woman, and she knew I was gay. And it was bizarre,” Lemon said.

“She was going through a divorce, it was just weird. And I never went to management. First of all, I thought, like, ‘OK, they may find a way to get rid of me because if I told this story, I don’t know if they’re going to believe me or not,'” he continued. “But then she was so mean to me after that, I was like, ‘I should’ve told the story.’ But yeah, I’ve been harassed by men and women.”

When Maher asked for more details about Lemon being “harassed” by the second colleague, Lemon said “it wasn’t a ‘twirl for me'” moment in the workplace, but instead, the instances occurred out of the office.

Lemon was an anchor for nearly a decade on CNN from 2014 to 2022. The news personality was fired from the network in April 2023 following his headline-making comments on former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who he said was not “in her prime” due to her age, as well as accusations of inappropriate behavior toward female colleagues detailed in a Variety report.


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