Matthew Weiner is publicly denying the sexual harassment allegation levied against him.
At a event in Los Angeles on Friday promoting the Mad Men creator’s debut book Heather, the Totality, Orange Is the New Black showrunner Jenji Kohan, who was moderating, started off the conversation by saying that while Weiner ought to be taking a victory lap, he’s instead having to defend himself against a harassment accusation from a former writer on his show.
Kater Gordon, an assistant-turned-writer, told The Information on Nov. 9 that the Mad Men creator told her that she owed it to him to see her naked.Kohan gave Weiner the chance to comment on the claim, and the high-profile showrunner used it as an opportunity to shoot down the accusation. “I will just say what I’ve said: the allegation is not true,” he told the few dozen audience members packed into Chevalier’s Books in Larchmont, the last stop on his book tour. He then addressed the larger issue of sexual harassment in the workplace, emphasizing that “this is a very important topic and a topic that has been an obsession of mine, in my work and in my life — and for, like, 92 hours of the show. We wanted people to be having this conversation and it’s great that we’re having it. It’s a very serious issue.”
When the Orange Is the New Black creator followed up by asking Weiner why someone might make something like that up, Weiner responded: “I don’t want to speak to someone else’s character.”…
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