Weatherman for Spectrum News NY1 Erick Adame claims that he was fired after someone took his n*de photos and sent them to his boss. This was revealed in a new lawsuit.
According to the New York Post;
Former NY1 meteorologist Erick Adame, in a statement on Instagram posted shortly after he filed the court papers Monday, announced his termination and revealed that he was getting professional help over what he described as his “compulsive behavior.”
“Despite being a public figure and being on television in the biggest market in the country in front of millions of people five days a week for more than a decade and a half, I secretly appeared on an adult webcam website,” Adame confessed in the post.
“It was absurd of me to think I could keep this private,” he wrote. “Nevertheless, my employer found out and I was suspended and then terminated.”
His legal petition in his Manhattan Supreme Court say a man took naked photos of him without his permission on the video chat website, identified as Unit 4 Media LTD.
The person then sent the pictures to his mother and NY1 “with intent of harassing, annoying, or alarming [Adame] and tortiously interfering with [Adame’s] employment relationship,” the court documents said.
Adame is seeking a court order to force the site to reveal the identity of the person – whose usernames include Sonal Prehonn, Tommysize29, Funtimes99, and Landonboy227 — noting he intends to sue them but needs their real identity to do so.
In his Instagram statement, Adame apologized to his employer, his co-workers, his audience and friends and family “for any embarrassment or humiliation I have caused you.”
“I had the job of my dreams and I lost it due to my own lapse in judgment,” he wrote.
Adame added that he doesn’t apologize for being gay or sex-positive and pleaded with potential future employers to give him a second chance rather than defining him on the “salacious video” that’s only a couple of minutes long.
“I acted out my compulsive behaviors, while at home, by performing on camera for other men,” Adame wrote, adding the videos were “100% consensual” on both sides and that he wasn’t paid for them.
I am still trying to figure out why he was fired?
Is it against the law to dance on webcam? Does that stop him from doing the weather report? He should be suing the TV station for wrongful termination since he is the victim here and they should have supported him.
Flip to the next page for Erick Adame’s full statement and the video that got him in trouble.