Sheryl Lee Ralph Says a ‘Famous TV Judge’ Sexually Assaulted Her Years Ago: I was Told to Keep Quiet to Avoid ‘Bad Press’
usmagazine.comSpeaking 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.
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