NEW YORK (AP) — Comedian Louis C.K. released the following statement on Friday following allegations of sexual misconduct in a New York Times report.
The statement is unedited except for explicit language:.
At the time, I said to myself that what I did was okay because I never showed a woman my (penis) without asking first, which is also true.
But what I learned later in life, too late, is that when you have power over another person, asking them to look at your (penis) isn’t a question.
The power I had over these women is that they admired me.
I didn’t think that I was doing any of that because my position allowed me not to think about it.
And I can hardly wrap my head around the scope of hurt I brought on them. »