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The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

Sil Lai Abrams: NBC Silenced My Allegations of Rape

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

FOX News Radio

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4.1738 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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This week, Sil Lai Abrams, award-winning writer and domestic abuse awareness advocate sat down with Martha for her first interview since her allegations of rape against Russell Simmons were made public. Sil Lai shares the reason she was terrified to name her attacker, why she believes NBC silenced her story and why she’s still fighting for it to be heard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The Untold Story with Martha McAll, exclusive interviews with top newsmakers who share their inspiring

0:38.7

stories of perseverance, positivity, and more. Now, here's Martha McCallum. NBC remains under fire

0:47.6

after Ronan Farrell revealed the network killed his reporting on sexual predator Harvey Weinstein.

0:53.5

Now, protesters are erupting outside of NBC

0:56.3

headquarters in New York City demanding the network take action amid ongoing sexual abuse scandals.

1:02.3

Meanwhile, activist, writer, and former model, Celai Abrams claims she too was silenced by NBC,

1:09.8

writing a new op-ed titled It's Not Just Ronan Farrow, NBC killed

1:14.4

my rape allegation story too. She details, quote, I am one of many survivors that NBC silenced

1:21.6

and were witness to how it treated one of their top talents for trying to break a story on sexual

1:26.9

predators. This is a much

1:28.6

bigger issue than their cover-ups, payoffs, and excuses. The media is supposed to be a watchdog

1:34.1

for abuses of power. Salai Abrams joins me now to share her untold story. Salai, thank you very

1:40.3

much. It's great to have you with us. Um, so obviously when this book came out,

1:46.0

the Ronan Farrow book came out, it must have brought up a lot of memories for you,

1:49.4

of your own experience. Tell me about that. When, when I first saw the promos for Ronan's book,

1:57.6

I was, uh, it was very triggering.

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