A former NBC staffer-turned-conservative pundit said she was sexually harassed when she worked at the network decades ago.
“I did suffer from sexual harassment from older men and men in power. And 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,” Emily Miller told Fox News’s Howard Kurtz on Sunday.
“I walked out after being propositioned for a promotion. I literally walked out, walked out of the building, went to my college roommate’s apartment and told her what happened. I was like, ‘Do you think what I think is happening is happening?’ And she’s like, ‘I don’t know, call your mom.’ I mean, that’s how young I was,” she said.
Miller said one of the interactions was physical, and the men who allegedly harassed her are still employed by the network. She did not provide any names.
Miller also offered to speak with law enforcement about the matter. She said the alleged harassment took place in the 90s.
The New York attorney general’s office is reportedly investigating how the network handled sexual harassment allegations. The revelation came after NBCUniversal announced that NBC News Chairman Andy Lack was leaving the company in the coming weeks.
Under Lack’s leadership, Today show host Matt Lauer was fired after a colleague accused him of raping her in 2014. Lauer denied the rape allegation, claiming their encounter was consensual. Chris Matthews abruptly left MSNBC in March after a female guest said he made sexually inappropriate comments to her. Matthews later admitted “inappropriate” behavior in an interview with Vanity Fair. NBC News also passed on Ronan Farrow’s reporting on sexual assault allegations against disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.
