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Death, Sex & Money - My Sex Life Became A Screenshot. Then I Lost My Job.

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Society & Culture, News, Business

3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Erick Adame was a TV weatherman. Then someone sent pictures to his employer, his mother, and his boyfriend of him performing sex acts on a webcam.

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since my story has come out and people I've seen or heard whatever they've come across,

0:06.9

there is a mixture of support, and then you would have this random message calling me

0:11.4

whatever name to degrade me and then saying, you want some more. Like, I can be your daddy.

0:16.6

I can, you know, no. I just lost this job that I really loved.

0:22.9

I'm being publicly humiliated, and you think I enjoy this.

0:29.7

This is death, sex, and money.

0:34.3

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot,

0:38.6

and need to talk about more.

0:41.2

I'm an assail.

0:47.5

Eric Adame was a weatherman on TV for more than 15 years.

0:55.0

The meteorologist Eric Adame is here with the first look at the forecast tonight.

0:58.0

Eric.

0:59.0

Yeah, this is a Nor'easter.

1:00.0

That's going to be just off to our east here tomorrow night.

1:03.0

So definitely starting off.

1:05.0

And then in September of 2022, Eric was fired when his employer found out there were graphic videos of him circulating on the internet.

1:13.6

Eric had been going on webcam for many years, performing sex acts in real time for strangers on adult websites.

1:21.6

He did it for pleasure, not for money.

1:24.6

And even though there were people watching him, Eric thought of camming as part of his

1:28.9

private sex life. After he was fired, Eric apologized to his employer, the local New York City

1:35.0

News Channel, New York One, in an Instagram post for acting out what he called compulsive sexual

1:41.1

behaviors online. But he also wanted to make clear he was not ashamed of being openly gay, more for having a sex life.

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