Britain- Anna Richardson swears up and done that not only did Ah-nuld gropinate her, but that he libellated her. Richardson, 32, a British anchorman is filing a $185,000 libel suit in a British court this week claiming that the California Governor fondled her F-cup after an interview, then added insult to injury by trashing her afterwards saying she encouraged it.
Richardson alleges that after she went public with accusations that Schwarzenegger squeezed her nipple, Ahnuld and his aides sullied her reputation by saying she egged him on and by describing her “as someone who uses sex as part of her interview technique.”
Ah-nuld, if you’re keeping score, was accused during his campaign last fall of groping at least six women years before, and apologized for sometimes behaving badly, but he denied the more lurid claims, as well as Richardson’s.
The broadcaster says her bad-action experience with the actor happened after a December 2000 taped television interview in London with Schwarzenegger.
When she went public, she told the British paper the Sun: “He kept saying how fantastic I looked and staring at my boobs. When I went to shake his hand, he pulled me on to his knee, saying, ‘I really want to know if your breasts are real.'”
“I told him they are an F-cup. Before I knew what was happening, he circled my nipple with his finger and gave it a squeeze. He then said, ‘Yeah, they are real.’ I stood up and said, ‘You’re making me nervous.’ He told me not to be nervous and pulled me back on his knee. I said, ‘Can I go, please?’ He said, ‘Yeah,’ and patted my bum as I went off.”
When Schwarzenegger, 57, was confronted with Richardson’s allegation, “he is said to have claimed that Ms. Richardson had encouraged this behavior,” the Independent said.
Last year, Schwarzenegger said of allegations of sexual harassment, “A lot of what you hear in those stories is not true. But as I’ve always said, where there’s smoke, there’s fire.”
