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RE: [Reality-TV-Fanatics] Bette Midler: Geraldo Rivera Has Not Apologized For 1970s Groping

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I remember it well, he denied he did anything to her. He would have never said he was sorry due to denying it happened. I think she has every right to mention that he never said he was sorry.
#MeToo 

 

From: Reality-TV-Fanatics@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Reality-TV-Fanatics@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2017 7:51 PM
Subject: [Reality-TV-Fanatics] Bette Midler: Geraldo Rivera Has Not Apologized For 1970s Groping

 




  Oh I am sure if she wanted an apology 40 plus years ago she would have gotten it.

She now is going to play this up big time. .

 

 


Bette Midler: Geraldo Rivera Has Not Apologized For 1970s Groping

By Greg Evans

The resurfacing of a 1991 video clip of Bette Midler telling Barbara Walters that she'd once been groped by Gera...

 

Bette Midler: Geraldo Rivera Has Not Apologized For 1970s Groping

November 30, 2017 12:26pm

The resurfacing of a 1991 video clip of Bette Midler telling Barbara Walters that she'd once been groped by Geraldo Rivera is like "a gift from the universe," Midler tweeted today.

 

"Tomorrow is my birthday," said Broadway's Hello, Dolly! star. "I feel like this video was a gift from the universe to me. Geraldo may have apologized for his tweets supporting Matt Lauer, but he has yet to apologize for this." Midler ended her message with #MeToo.

Yesterday, Rivera drew outrage when he tweeted about Lauer, "News is a flirty business & it seems like [the] current epidemic of #SexHarassmentAllegations may be criminalizing courtship & conflating it [with] predation." He added that harassment allegations "shouldn't be used to get even w bad bosses or hated ex's."

Rivera's employer, Fox News, said it was "troubled" by his comments, and Rivera later apologized in a string of tweets. Among other things, he said he "didn't sufficiently explain that this is a horrendous problem long hidden."

The controversy led to the viral resurfacing of the Walters-Midler clip, in which Midler calls Rivera a "slimy talk show host" and recounts being interviewed — and groped — by Rivera in the 1970s.

"This was when [Rivera] was very, sort of, hot," Midler tells Walters in the video. "And he and his producer left the crew in the other room, they pushed me into my bathroom, they broke two poppers and pushed them under my nose and proceeded to grope me. Groped me. I did not offer myself up on the altar of Geraldo Rivera. He was — he was unseemly."

Rivera acknowledged the encounter back in 1991, when the seriousness (or lack thereof) given to the subject of sexual harassment can be glimpsed in the title of Rivera's memoir: Exposing Myself. In it, Rivera wrote about Midler, "We were in the bathroom, preparing for the interview, and at some point I put my hands on her breasts."

Here is Midler's tweet from earlier this afternoon, with the Walters clip:

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Tomorrow is my birthday. I feel like this video was a gift from the universe to me. Geraldo may have apologized for his tweets supporting Matt Lauer, but he has yet to apologize for this. #MeToo




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