Disgraced television host Charlie Rose is being asked to divulge detailed information about alleged sexual affairs he had with coworkers throughout his career.
The attorneys of Chelsea Wei, Katherine Brooks Harris, and Sydney McNeal asked during a deposition in November that Rose provide clarity on his November 2017 admission of “inappropriate behavior.” Rose’s lawyers repeatedly told him not to give detailed answers.
“Rose is not above the law,” wrote attorney Kenneth Goldberg. “He does not get to pick and choose what information plaintiffs receive in discovery.”
Documents of the deposition were unsealed recently, and Goldberg asked the judge to demand Rose, who was host of CBS This Morning, respond with greater depth about who he was referencing when he suggested “inappropriate behavior.”
“I wasn’t thinking about specific people,” Rose said during the Nov. 14 deposition. “I was thinking of my own sense of passion, my history and respect for women, my sense of emotional connection to gender equality, my idea of always being a champion and in that capacity.”
Kyle Godfrey-Ryan, a former assistant of Rose who penned a Washington Post article about Rose’s misconduct, claimed during an October deposition that the host was “always” touching or groping her around the office.
“He would grab, like, the outside of my breasts,” said Godfrey-Ryan. “He would, like, kiss me very seductive. He — he treated me physically at times as if I were like a lover or a girlfriend … There wasn’t, like — there was nothing, like, secret about it… It was a very, like, out in the open sort of behavior.”
In April, Harris filed an affidavit that claimed Rose had “intentionally” tried to coerce physical intimacy between the two.
“He would sit on the bench outside the broadcast studio and would require me to sit next to him,” she claimed. “Rose intentionally placed his hand on the bench so that my buttocks landed on his hand, and he kept his hand under me.”
