Evidence: Sen. Al Franken Kissed and Groped Me Without My Consent, and There's Nothing Funny About It
Leeann Tweeden writes at KABC.com:
In December of 2006, I embarked on my ninth USO Tour to entertain our troops, my eighth to the Middle East since the 9/11 attacks. My father served in Vietnam and my then-boyfriend (and now husband, Chris) is a pilot in the Air Force, so bringing a "little piece of home" to servicemembers stationed far away from their families was both my passion and my privilege . . . .
On the day of the show Franken and I were alone backstage going over our lines one last time. He said to me, "We need to rehearse the kiss." I laughed and ignored him. Then he said it again. I said something like, "Relax Al, this isn't SNL . . . we don't need to rehearse the kiss."
He continued to insist, and I was beginning to get uncomfortable.
"He repeated that actors really need to rehearse everything and that we must practice the kiss," Tweeden continues.
"I said 'OK' so he would stop badgering me. We did the line leading up to the kiss and then he came at me, put his hand on the back of my head, mashed his lips against mine and aggressively stuck his tongue in my mouth."
Tweeden says she "immediately pushed him away with both of my hands against his chest and told him if he ever did that to me again I wouldn't be so nice about it the next time."
After that, "I walked away. All I could think about was getting to a bathroom as fast as possible to rinse the taste of him out of my mouth.
"I felt disgusted and violated. . . "
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