CNN Reporter Chloe Melas, who claimed that she was sexually harassed by actor Morgan Freeman and then was allowed by CNN to file her own report on the incident, says she is now getting threats. 

Melas “has already received a threat from one Los Angeles publicist who wrote, ‘I’m alerting all PR people to never allow their male clients to interview with you.’ On top of that Ms. Melas and members of her family have received death threats that are striking for their graphic nature and vulgarity,” reads the letter from David Vigilante, CNN’s senior vice president/legal.

The Atlanta Journal Constitution says that the letter was a response to a blistering 10-page missive from Freeman’s attorney, Robert Schwartz. 

“Designed for press consumption, it is rife with empty speculation, overheated rhetoric, and in some instances plainly false assumptions,” the CNN letter says. 

The letter from Freeman’s attorney criticized CNN for running a piece authored by one of the accusers.