Sweet baby Jesus! Sheryl Lee Ralph has received critical acclaim for her portrayal of Barbara Howard on ABC’s Abbott Elementary — but that wasn’t always the role she wanted to play.
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Speaking her truth. Abbott Elementary star Sheryl Lee Ralph revealed that she was allegedly sexually assaulted by a “famous TV judge” in the past.
“I’m at a very public place. I was suited. I had my suit on,” the actress, 66, shared on the Monday, March 20, episode of the “Way Up With Angela Yee” podcast. “I was handling my business for the television show I was on at that time. He and I were on the same network. This man walked in, grabbed me by the back of my neck, turned me around and rammed his nasty ass tongue down my throat, and everybody at the network saw it.”
Clarifying that the person in question was not Judge Mathis star Greg Mathis, she noted that she contacted former New Orleans mayor Marc Morial after the incident. “He said, ‘You want me to send the police there right now? Because we will fix his you know what right now,’” the Moesha alum claimed. “Somebody at the network tapped me on the shoulder, they said, ‘Please don’t.’ Do you know that they did not want any bad press around their show and did not care what had just happened to me?”
During the episode, she detailed another instance where she was allegedly sexually violated prior to her encounter with the unnamed assaulter. “I thought to myself, ‘What did I do to deserve that.’ I’m like, ‘My skirt is at my knees, I have on a sweater blouse. What made this man think that he could just come over and put his hands on my body?’ He didn’t know me,” Ralph told host Angela Yee and cohost Jasmine Brand.
The Ray Donovan alum said she confronted the man about his actions years later, though he didn’t remember the incident at all. “Do you want to know what was the shocking part? Everybody around the table was appalled that I would stand up for myself,” she added.
Sweet baby Jesus! Sheryl Lee Ralph has received critical acclaim for her portrayal of Barbara Howard on ABC’s Abbott Elementary — but that wasn’t always the role she wanted to play.
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Sheryl Lee Ralph is opening up about a “nasty” assault — and the upsetting response by the TV industry.
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Sheryl Lee Ralph, veteran actress and now “Abbott Elementary” star, says a “famous TV judge” assaulted her.Ralph opened up about the alleged incident on Monday during an appearance on radio personality Angela Yee’s “The Way Up With Angela Yee” podcast. “I’m at a very public place,” Ralph said. “I was suited. I had my suit on.
Sheryl Lee Ralph is claiming that she was sexually assaulted by a «famous TV judge.» The Abbott Elementary actress recalled the alleged incident during an appearance on the podcast on Monday.«I'm at a very public place. I was suited. I had my suit on.
Sheryl Lee Ralph is opening up about a painful chapter from her past.
Sheryl Lee Ralph opened up about being a victim of sexual assault.
Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior Correspondent Sheryl Lee Ralph has alleged she was sexually assaulted by a “famous TV judge” at a business event years ago, claiming network executives witnessed the attack, but asked her to stay silent to avoid “bad press.” “I’m at a very public place. I was suited. I had my suit on. I was handling my business for the television show I was on at that time. He and I were on the same network,” Ralph said, recalling the alleged incident. “This man walked in, grabbed me by the back of my neck, turned me around and rammed his nasty ass tongue down my throat,” Ralph said. “And everybody at the network saw it.”
Sheryl Lee Ralph made the shocking revelation that she was sexually assaulted by a “famous TV judge” at a work event — and claimed network executives who witnessed it years ago asked her not to report the attack because it would be “bad press.”“This man walked in, grabbed me by the back of my neck, turned me around and rammed his nasty ass tongue down my throat,” the 66-year-old said on Monday’s “Way Up With Angela Yee” podcast episode. “And everybody at the network saw it.”The “Abbott Elementary” star did not disclose when it happened or the “famous” TV judge’s name, but confirmed that it was not Judge Greg Mathis, calling him “a great man.”“I’m at a very public place.
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