In November, Ryan Seacrest received a letter from a lawyer representing a former show stylist. She claimed that Seacrest mistreated her more than a decade ago when she worked with him. Seacrest, in a guest column for The Hollywood Reporter, writes that “To have my workplace conduct questioned was gut-wrenching. I’ve always aimed to treat all of my colleagues with honesty, respect, kindness and compassion.” This came at a prime moment of the #MeToo and Time’s Up campaigns, where women around the world, and many from Hollywood, were calling out sexual harassment in the workplace. Seacrest writes that he knew that “regardless of the confidence I had that there was no merit to the allegations, my name would likely soon appear on the lists of those suspected of despicable words and deeds.” He says he wanted to be a part of the “the change, the progress, that is coming. I did not want to be a postscript of evidence to its cause.” So he shared the letter with the network and then publicly denied the claims and agreed to participate in an inquiry the network wanted to have. On Feb. 1, he received notice that there was no evidence of wrongdoing on his part. Seacrest writes that we find ourselves in “extraordinary times” and he does not want to take anything for granted, especially morals, values and decency.
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