{"id":11743,"date":"2018-05-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/morgan-freeman-says-sorry-following-accusations-of-sexual-misconduct\/"},"modified":"2018-05-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T00:00:00","slug":"morgan-freeman-says-sorry-following-accusations-of-sexual-misconduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/morgan-freeman-says-sorry-following-accusations-of-sexual-misconduct\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Freeman Says Sorry Following Accusations Of Sexual Misconduct"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Hollywood A-lister Morgan Freeman, 80, has apologised after eight women accused him of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behaviour.<\/h3>\n<p>According to CNN, another eight people claim to have witnessed Freeman\u2019s alleged behaviour.<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cThese 16 people together described a pattern of inappropriate behaviour by Freeman on set, while promoting his movies and at his production company Revelations Entertainment,\u201d CNN reports.<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>FULL REPORT:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">EXCLUSIVE: Eight women accuse Morgan Freeman of inappropriate behavior. They say it happened on movie sets, at his company and in interviews. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IdIP1vAcSn\">https:\/\/t.co\/IdIP1vAcSn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YuOo2BxyxW\">pic.twitter.com\/YuOo2BxyxW<\/a><\/p>&mdash; CNN (@CNN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN\/status\/999666912442376192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p>Freeman has released a statement in the wake of the accusations:<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<blockquote>&#13;\n\t<h3>\u201cAnyone who knows me or has worked with me knows I am not someone who would intentionally offend or knowingly make anyone feel uneasy. I apologize to anyone who felt uncomfortable or disrespected &#8212; that was never my intent.\u201d<\/h3>&#13;\n<\/blockquote>&#13;\n&#13;\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Morgan Freeman apologizes after multiple women accuse actor of sexual harassment <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WuxRfR5jgy\">https:\/\/t.co\/WuxRfR5jgy<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews\/status\/999703017501941760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood A-lister Morgan Freeman, 80, has apologised after eight women accused him of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behaviour. According to CNN, another eight people claim to have witnessed Freeman\u2019s alleged behaviour. \u201cThese 16 people together described a pattern of inappropriate behaviour by Freeman on set, while promoting his movies and at his production company Revelations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-11743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Morgan Freeman Says Sorry Following Accusations Of Sexual Misconduct - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/morgan-freeman-says-sorry-following-accusations-of-sexual-misconduct\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Morgan Freeman Says Sorry Following Accusations Of Sexual Misconduct\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hollywood A-lister Morgan Freeman, 80, has apologised after eight women accused him of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behaviour. 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