Linda Bloodworth-Thomason was experiencing the most successful stretch of her career until Les Moonves strolled into CBS.
The “Designing Women” creator accused the disgraced CBS executive of sabotaging her work, including a $50-million contract with the network. “I was never sexually harassed or attacked by Les Moonves,” Thomason wrote in an op-ed for The Hollywood Reporter. “My encounters were much more subtle, engendering a different kind of destruction.”
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Her allegations follow Moonves exit from CBS after six women accused him of sexual misconduct in a July expose from The New Yorker.
“He sat and stared at me throughout the entire reading with eyes that were stunningly cold, as in, ‘You are so dead,'” she alleged. “I had not experienced such a menacing look since Charles Manson tried to stare me down on a daily basis when I was a young reporter covering that trial.
“As soon as the pilot was completed, Moonves informed me that it would not be picked up,” Thomason continued. “I was at the pinnacle of my career. I would not work again for seven years.”
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Moonves supposedly rejected every script she brought to him: “People asked me for years, ‘Where have you been? What happened to you?’ Les Moonves happened to me.”
CBS said the network and Moonves “will donate $20 million to one or more organizations that support the #MeToo movement and equality for women in the workplace” following his exit.
