Hello and welcome to a special episode of the new abnormal. We have a really powerful episode today

with Andrea MacRus, who was sexually harassed by Bill O'Reilly while working at Fox News and has

come forward recently to break her NDA to talk to the Daily Beast, Diana Falzone, who will join us

for this podcast to discuss Andrea's story. So my first question for you is you got this settlement

and Fox kept him. Correct. Can you talk about what that was like to watch? You had to sort of go

off and be silent and then he just got to keep going. This is what I wrote to Diana actually. We

spoke about this and I wrote her about this. So this is something that I really happy to address.

I sit 17 years and counting outside of my profession where I belong. I never wanted the money.

I wanted my day in court. I wanted my career. I wanted my voice. My silence was never a bargaining

ship. I'll be quiet if you pay me off. I never agreed to play a role in any of this. So a serial

sexual predator is protected by my NDA and this is a document that shouldn't even be legal.

It allowed Fox News channel and Bill O'Reilly to make millions of dollars, perhaps billions,

off of forcing the silence of women. So of course like that was horrible to

to witness him harming more women that legal system protecting him and silencing me.

So it allowed him to go on and harass more women. It must have felt really powerless. It was very

powerless. I had no power at all. One of the things you talked about is there was sort of an

O'Reilly shift. Like he was normal and then when he saw that he had a little bit of power over you,

he kind of changed. When you went to Bill Shine to get a raise, when you really needed the job,

there was a change. What it began, yes. I mean, I just think that's very interesting and

a sort of a typical kind of thing for these kind of harassers. Yeah. So it was about 2002. My

fiance and I had broken up. We've been together for eight years. It was devastating as any major

breakup is. And we had a shared home, shared finances. And now I was on my own. And I did not make

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