Warren Moon is denying that he sexually harassed has former assistant Wendy Haskell. Haskell is suing him for sexual harassment where she accuses Moon of making her sleep in his hotel rooms and drugging her.
Moon says it is all a big misunderstanding. Moon spoke with KIRO Radio’s Dori Monson and here is what he had to say.
“Our relationship kind of escalated over the last year or so and became more of just a friendship; we basically became like really close companions,” Moon said, adding that at no point in their relationship had the two had a sexual encounter. “But we have been very, very close; we’ve shared a lot of things, we’ve talked a lot, we’ve been a lot of different places together, we’ve traveled together, we’ve done a lot of different things.
Moon denies many of the statements, including the allegation that he drugged Haskell.
“All of that is totally untrue,” Moon said, “and I have witnesses that would testify to that, that were present or knew the situation. So no truth to that at all.”
However, he does acknowledge that he and Haskell had shared a hotel room on previous occasions — which included sharing a bed.
“At times we did share rooms together, and at other times we didn’t. It just depended on the situation of where we were.
When questioned by Dori whether he felt sharing a hotel room with his then-assistant was inappropriate, Moon said he felt as though it was not out of the norm.
“To me, it’s not, only because of my history with women in general,” Moon said. “I’ve done this with many other women, I’ve been able to if the situation arises that they needed somewhere to stay or whatever, they would stay with me. And they knew that there wasn’t going to be any threat because of the respect that they have for me. So I can get a big number of women that would come forward and tell you those same things, that every time they were around me, they’d never feel any type of threat from me and they feel very comfortable around me, and it was no different with her.”
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