Sexually Harassed at NBC

Former NBC News staffer and conservative pundit Emily Miller said that during time at the Peacock in the 1990s, “older men and men in power” propositioned her and dangled a promotion in exchange for sex.

Appearing on Fox News Miller discussed her former boss Andy Lack, who stepped down as chairman of NBC News and MSNBC on May 4, and told host Howard Kurtz that the New York Attorney General’s Office had opened an investigation into harassment claims at NBC that were connected to Lack.

Kurtz asked Miller if she had experienced sexual harassment when she worked at NBC News in the 1990s, she answered, “I did.”

“I did suffer from sexual harassment and from older men and men in power,” she said. “They made it very clear some of the exchanges that would have to happen in order for me to be promoted there. And I was so young, so naive I didn’t even really understand what was going on. I knew that I had to leave.”

She went on to say that one of those interactions got physical and that those who harassed here are all still employed by NBC.

A rep for NBC News did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Miller later went on Twitter and repeated that she had been sexually harassed and that she “didn’t have any other option” but to leave the network because of her values. “I was young and powerless and sure wasn’t going to sleep with a married man my father’s age for a promotion at NBC. I walked out the door and never went back. Got a job at ABC News,” she said.

Miller tweeted out yesterday that a number of women that work, or did work at NBC have talked to investigators.

H/T The Wrap

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