Jenny McCarthy’s old interview reveals Steven Seagal harassed her too

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Earlier this week, CB covered the current situation with Steven Seagal. He’s being sued by his former “executive assistant” who claims she was sexual harassed while in Seagal’s home. For a recap of CB’s story, go here. I think, like CB, that there is probably a lot of truth to what the woman is saying, just because Seagal is one of those guys that there was also gossip about, you know? He’s always seemed like a major-league a–hole, so finding out that he hires 20-something women and tries to force himself on them isn’t shocking.

So with that in mind, some journalists over at CBS have gone digging, looking for more dirt on Seagal. They didn’t have to go very far, although from the way this is being reported, you’d think it was some exhaustive investigation. When really, they just found an old magazine interview with Jenny McCarthy. Apparently, back in 1998, Jenny was interviewed for an issue of Movieline, and she told her Steven Seagal story. It’s pretty cheesy/gross:

A bundle of sexual assault allegations against Steven Seagal are revealing what may be a long-term pattern of inappropriateness. CBS Crimesider has dug up a 1998 interview with Jenny McCarthy — who says that during a casting call for ‘Under Siege 2,’ she was asked to strip and threatened not to tell anyone.

“I go inside Seagal’s office, and he’s by himself and says, ‘Sit on my couch,” McCarthy told Movieline magazine in ’98. “Then he said, ‘Take off your dress.’ I just started crying and said, ‘Rent my Playboy video, you a–hole!’ and ran out to the car.”

CBS also reports in 1998, nine women told Penthouse magazine about their experiences of Seagal sexually harassing them. Yikes.

News recently broke that Seagal’s reality series, ‘Steven Seagal Lawman,’ will be shelved as a result of the scandal.

The lawsuit TMZ obtained Monday alleges Kayden Nguyen interviewed with Seagal to become his executive assistant. Nguyen claims she landed the job, but when she showed up for work, “Mr. Seagal had been keeping two young female Russian ‘attendants’ on staff who were available for his sexual needs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.” Nguyen also claims, Seagal treated her “as his sex toy.”

According to RadarOnline, Nguyen is suing for sexual harassment, illegal trafficking of females for sex, failure to prevent sexual harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination and false representation about employment and wants more than $1 million dollars.

[From PopEater]

So basically Steven Seagal is a f-cking pig/douchebag/piece of trash. And I also find it interesting that not only did Jenny McCarthy leave when Seagal sexually harassed her, she outed him in an interview. I wonder if people took her seriously back then?

Can I tell a little story? I’ve never been sexually harassed like this at any of the jobs I’ve ever had, but I did have a harassment situation at a summer job in college that made me terribly uncomfortable. My manager was a horrible homophobic, racist bigot, and he always managed to casually slip in various terrible slurs into everyday conversation. One day (a few weeks into my new job) he was going on about f-ggot this and that, I called him on his sh-t very casually, and with an even tone, I told him that I always held the opinion that the people who used words like that in casual conversation were gay themselves, and besides that, I would appreciate it if he didn’t use that word around me anymore. He had a hissy fit! And he demoted me, trying to get me to quit, which I did, gladly. That’s my big harassment story. Of course, I also had a job where my boss always wanted to take me out to eat and acted like they were “date” situations. But I actually liked him a lot, and hey, it was a free meal. Does anyone have any good stories?

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  1. su says:

    he is such a vile and disgusting human being. yuck!

  2. Jag says:

    He’s a sleaze, and yes, there have been rumors for years about him. Doubtful anyone took McCarthy seriously, or he would’ve at least gone to court, one would think.

  3. Neelyo says:

    This interview was the first thing I thought of when the woman came forward a few weeks ago and that’s why I believed the story.

    Outing Steven Seagal for the pig that he is was one of the few moments I’ve liked McCarthy. He was still popular at the time and it took guts.

  4. Kim says:

    umm, isn’t this what a “lawman” is supposed to do? what else would he do with all of that power? seriously, what a creep.

  5. lilianah says:

    Do you guys remember the time he was supposed to be a reincarnation of some high Buddhist priest or something?
    http://www.sangyetashiling.dk/kt/seagal.htm

    I don’t think that’s the tulku way, Steven…

  6. lucy2 says:

    Disgusting! Doesn’t he proclaim himself to be some enlightened being too? Seems he’s really just an a-hole.
    I can’t believe it’s taken this long for it to finally become so public.

    Based on this article alone I’m a little confused though – was he just harassing her and trying to get her into bed and fired her when she wouldn’t, or did they have a relationship and then he fired her at some point as a result?

  7. Roma says:

    I was once fired as a bartender for refusing to give a mouth hug to our GM at a staff party. I turned him down and didn’t even think it was a big deal; I was 19 and naïve enough to think it was just a drunk guy acting like a drunk guy. The next time I showed up for my shift he was trying to pressure me to quit and had 3 incident reports that I had never seen before and that he had backdated… I had never been written up in my life. I refused to quit and sat there until he fired me. When the owner called to see what went down I told him everything and ended up getting a pretty nice cheque! That’s when I learned an important life lesson: always make them fire you.

    It’s horrible what men with a little power think they can get away with.

  8. Ana says:

    One of my friends always tried to get me to make out with him in the back room.

    But a manager once grabbed my pony tail and bent me over a table. Said he liked long hair or something to grab onto…something like that. I never said anything, it just shocked me. A coworker was standing right next to me and his eyes almost popped out of his head.

  9. Ashley says:

    you all know the woman accusing him of this was on the tyra banks show. she is a lesbian and she said she uses her looks to get what she wants out of men, she tricks them, so if he has that footage, she can kiss her lawsuit goodbye. people are so stupid, stuff will always come back to haunt you

  10. Feebee says:

    Sounds like a real cock. Maybe he’s trying to compensate for something.

    It’s obviously about the power trip, as assholes like him can always find groupies to do him. Though ew, on second thoughts, maybe he couldn’t. He’s pretty gross.

  11. Vibius says:

    Did they have sex? Yes

    Based on that video did she just get outplayed?

  12. Maddie says:

    Did you know that Steven Seagal was married and had kids over in Japan, and left them to come to Hollywood, divorce her so he could marry Kelly LeBrock.

    He also had an affair with the nanny while married to Kelly, which is why they divorced, he then cheated on the nanny/lover with other skanks, so yeah I think it might be true obviously he has no respect for women.

    Plus he’s guilty because all of his movies suck!!!

  13. yourmom says:

    I was looking at some pics of him on popeater (I know, I know) and I swear it looks like he uses that spray-on hair stuff that they used to sell on infomercials! Seriously, he sprays his hair on! Hahahahahaha! Douche. Kelly Lebrock was too good for him.

  14. Jess says:

    Looks like a gorilla in that pic… over tanned and frumpy too. This guy just sucks as an actor and as a man.

  15. mingming says:

    He has harrassed women all over asia too. Treats women like crap. The arrogant pig also thinks he should be worshipped! He’s so gross.

  16. Kealani says:

    He looks like what he is: a fat, lazy, perverted pig!

  17. sassy says:

    I was doing a murder mystery show and the guy who hired our group got really drunk and yanked my dress down trying to see my boobs and yelled, “what is that, a B cup??”