“These are the defenses that many ladies like Ms. Abdul needed to undertake to take care of males who abuse their energy,” reps for Abdul acknowledged
A day after Nigel Lythgoe referred to as Paula Abdul a “fabulist” in response to her sexual assault grievance in opposition to him, the previous American Idol decide accused him of “traditional sufferer shaming.”
“Mr. Lythgoe’s reply to Ms. Abdul’s grievance is traditional sufferer shaming,” learn an announcement from Abdul’s legal professionals despatched to Rolling Stone. “Mr. Lythgoe fails to understand that he held a place of energy over Ms. Abdul. He was a producer on American Idol and SYTYCD and she or he was the expertise. He held the playing cards to her profession in his hand and he knew it. It thus isn’t any shock that Ms. Abdul placated to his ego with optimistic messaging and seeming adoration. These are the defenses that many ladies like Ms. Abdul needed to undertake to take care of males who abuse their energy.”
Again in December, Abdul sued the previous American Idol and So You Suppose You Can Dance producer and the present’s manufacturing firms, alleging that Lythgoe sexually assaulted her a number of occasions whereas she was internet hosting the exhibits. Lythgoe denied her allegations on the time, calling them an “appalling smear.”
In a 22-page reply to Abdul’s lawsuit filed Tuesday, Lythgoe referred to as her accusations “false, despicable, insupportable, and life-changing.” He additionally included excerpts from purported private emails courting again to 2014 and 2015 through which Abdul allegedly expressed heat emotions towards him and referred to as him “sweetheart.”
Reps for Abdul addressed Lythgoe’s claims in Wednesday’s assertion: “Whereas Mr. Lythgoe’s reply cherry-picks from years of messages with Ms. Abdul to attempt to discredit her claims, what his choices fail to point out are the quite a few cases of overt sexual harassment he pressured Ms. Abdul to tolerate.” The assertion outlined cases of alleged specific messages from the producer, claiming that on March 8, 2014 he wrote to Abdul, “If you get again to LA will you please make like to me! Slowly and lovingly!” and that when she failed to reply, he allegedly declared, “I’ll take that as a YES then!’”
On the identical day the embattled TV producer claimed Abdul’s allegations have been “pure fiction,” Lythgoe was hit with one other lawsuit on Tuesday — this time from a Jane Doe accuser alleging he sexually battered her at his house in 2018. That is along with a lawsuit filed in January from two Jane Does who claimed he pressured himself on them whereas they have been contestants on his 2003 actuality recreation present All American Lady.
