Ryan Seacrest Accused of Sexual Abuse

American Idol host Ryan Seacrest has not been spared by the tide of sexual harassment accusations that have flooded Hollywood lately. A former stylist for Seacrest claims that he subjected her to sexual harassment for years and that she endured the abuse because she was a afraid of losing her job.

Via Page Six.

Suzie Hardy was a single mother with a preschool-age daughter when she landed a job as Ryan Seacrest’s personal stylist for “E! News” in 2006. The position provided good pay and a schedule that would allow her to pick up her child from school most workdays.

But according to a November letter from Hardy’s attorney addressed to cable channel E!, its corporate parent NBCUniveral and Seacrest, the job became an ordeal as Seacrest subjected Hardy to years of unwanted sexual aggression — grinding his erect penis against her while clad only in his underwear, groping her vagina and at one point slapping her buttock so hard that it left a large welt still visible hours later.

Hardy claimed that she endured the abuse for years out of concern over being able to provide for her daughter, and that the situation only ended in 2013, when, after reporting Seacrest’s actions to human resources executives, her employment ended.

Variety exclusively obtained a copy of the November letter and spoke on multiple occasions to Hardy and her attorney. In the letter and in exclusive interviews with Variety, Hardy described in detail numerous incidents of harassment and assault allegedly perpetrated by Seacrest over the years she was his stylist.

“As proud as I am and as strong as a woman as I am, as smart as I am and as much work as I’ve done with therapists, it really affected me,” Hardy told Variety of the abuse she said Seacrest subjected her to.

Seacrest has repeatedly refuted Hardy’s claims.

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