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| A few weeks ago, our very own Leanne Tweeden posted on social media, hashtag MeToo. | |
| And today is the day that Leanne has chosen to actually tell her story and name names. | |
| So let's start first. | |
| Who is your abuser? | |
| Senator Al Franken. | |
| So that particular year, the Sergeant Major of the Army sponsored this tour. | |
| Al Franken was one of the headliners of the tour, and I was going as the emcee, and when he introduced himself when we met in Washington, D.C., before we all flew over, he said, oh, you know, when I found out you were coming on this tour, I wrote a little scene, if you will, with you in it if you would like to do it with me, if you want to play along. | |
| And I said, you know, okay, fine, sure, I'm game, you know, whatever. | |
| And he gave me the script. | |
| And, you know, it was full of sexual innuendos. | |
| And it was supposed to be funny, you know, because largely our military is young mailmen. | |
| And fine, okay, I can play along with that. | |
| And, of course, there was a kissing scene that he wrote in for him to kiss me. | |
| And, you know, in my mind, I was never actually going to kiss Al Franken. | |
| Yeah, it was a comedy kiss. | |
| So, Al and I were backstage waiting to go on, and we had a little makeshift backstage area, which basically was the gem for these troops. | |
| And they had a little place cordoned off for us. | |
| And Al came up to me, and he's like, well, we need to rehearse our kiss. | |
| And I'm like, yeah, okay. | |
| And I just blew him off. | |
| You know, because I'm thinking, we don't need to rehearse the kiss. | |
| I mean, we're doing a live, you know, 60-second skit in front of troops. | |
| We're not filming a movie, right? | |
| And so I blew him off because I didn't think he was serious. | |
| And then he kind of said it again. | |
| He's like, well, we need to rehearse the kiss, Leanne. | |
| And I'm like, Al, okay, you turn your head to the right. | |
| I'll turn my head to the right. | |
| Okay, we got this. | |
| And he actually got more... | |
| Excuse me, I had to take a drink of water. | |
| I'm getting nervous. | |
| It's funny. | |
| As I tell this, I'm getting worked up and I'm shaking. | |
| It reminded me. | |
| Remember when we played the Harvey Weinstein when the girl in New York actually wore the wire? | |
| And we listened to him. | |
| The only audio we heard of Harvey Weinstein. | |
| And he was very aggressive and very relentless. | |
| Just go up to the room with me. | |
| Just go up. | |
| Just go up for five minutes. | |
| Yes, it was relentless. | |
| That's what I could hear in his voice. | |
| He started getting relentless. | |
| And I'm like, why is he insisting that we have to rehearse the damn kiss? | |
| I mean, it's like a fake kiss, right? | |
| This is all I could think about. | |
| I'm like... | |
| Good God, Al. | |
| You know, it's not SNL, for goodness sakes, right? | |
| We're not doing this thing for real. | |
| This is just a live thing in front of troops. | |
| It doesn't matter, you know? | |
| And he's like, Leanne, you know, actors, we have to rehearse everything. | |
| You have to rehearse the kiss. | |
| And just to make it go away and to make him stop, I'm like, okay, well, rehearse the damn kiss, you know? | |
| It happened so fast that as I'm like, okay, we're going to rehearse the kiss, you know, and as we're coming in and I come in towards him, you know, we rehearse the line and the line leading up to the kiss. | |
| We rehearse the line, and I'm coming towards him, and he comes up, and he grabs me, and he puts his hand behind my head, and he aggressively comes in, and he mashes his mouth up against mine, and he sticks his tongue in my mouth. | |
| And as it happens, it happens so fast, and he puts his tongue in my mouth, and his mouth is just wet and slimy, and to this day, I call them fish lips, okay, because it's disgusting. | |
| How was he treating you after the backstage incident when he stuck his tongue in your mouth, and then you rebuffed him? | |
| And you had to go out and do the fake kiss scene, which you didn't allow him to kiss you on stage. | |
| He turned your head. | |
| But now, you're on the tour. | |
| What was his demeanor like with you in the intervening days? | |
| You know, it's like that passive-aggressive thing. | |
| I mean, I'm sure every woman has ever dealt with this. | |
| You know, a guy's been hitting on you for an hour, and then you say, I'm not interested, and then all of a sudden, you're the bitch, or you're fat and ugly anyways. | |
| I'm like, really? | |
| Okay, I'm just not interested. | |
| I'm sorry. | |
| And you're the bad guy. | |
| You're the one that's, you know, the evil woman. | |
| And it's like... | |
| It was that passive aggressiveness the whole tour. | |
| We're sitting doing autograph sessions. | |
| Literally, there are times nobody's in his line because, let's face it, you know, not that there's politics, but there are people that are, you know, patriots that go on these tours that people love, and sometimes there are no people in his line, and I'd have... | |
| People out the door that would either have my FHM magazine and I could see out of the corner of my eye one time that one of my headshots kind of was like moving away and I looked over and I looked down and I looked down and he's like drawing on one of my pictures. | |
| And I have devil horns and a goatee and the devil tail and a pitchfork. | |
| And I'm just thinking, really, this is what I'm dealing with? | |
| Al Franken's drawing me as the devil. | |
| I'm like, okay, these are the little petty things I had to deal with for two weeks on the road. | |
| The tour comes to an end. | |
| You do all the shows. | |
| You go into the combat zones. | |
| And it's Christmas Eve, and it's time to come back to L.A. And you're on a C-17, about to make a 36-hour trip back to Los Angeles. | |
| So you're trying to get as much sleep on the flight as possible, and when you land back in LA, the unit photographer hands you a disc, a souvenir disc, of the photos from the trip. | |
| And everybody gets a copy of the disc because they had a photographer following everybody around. | |
| So you get home, and after recovering from the trip, you pop the disc into your laptop to take a look at the pictures, and what did you discover? | |
| I open up my photo disc and it's, you know, all the pictures from the tour. | |
| And I get to the pictures finally at the end, you know, because they're sort of in chronological order. | |
| And I see a picture and there's a picture of me sleeping in my gear on the plane. | |
| And there's Al Franken literally in the photo grabbing my boobs with his hands as if he's grabbing my breasts and looking at the camera and like smiling, laughing with this smirk. | |
| on his face and I'm like After everything that happened on this tour, you know, in context, I mean, just looking at the photograph by itself, if he didn't know anything else that happened, it's still a disgusting photo. | |
| And it's probably one of those things where, you know, he thought, oh, hey, this is funny. | |
| You're taking a picture of Leanne sleeping. | |
| Hey, why don't you get this? | |
| And it's just that mentality that he thought he could get away with it and that it was funny. | |
| And then it's funny that you can grab someone's breasts while they're sleeping and just think that, hey, I can get away with this. | |
| And that's that mentality that I'm like. | |
| That's funny because, you know, when I opened that photo, when I got home, it was embarrassing. | |
| I felt belittled. | |
| I was ashamed. | |
| And I'm thinking, you know, I've had to live with this for 11 years. | |
| I wanted to come out and release this photo and tell the world about it. | |
| 10 years ago when I got home and just be like, look at what Al Franken did long before he was a senator, long before, you know, anything. | |
| Why didn't you? | |
| Why didn't you come out 11 years ago? | |
| You know, back then it was way different. | |
| You know, the times were different. | |
| I was worried about my career because people are going to go, oh, you're a model. | |
| You've been on the cover of Playboy. | |
| You're a lingerie model and a swimsuit model and you're a sportscaster and you're a girl in Hollywood. | |
| Are they going to believe you? | |
| You've been playing in the boys' sandbox most of your career. | |
| You've been working in the modeling business, in the sports arena, as a host of Best Damn Sports Show. | |
| Extreme Sports. | |
| Extreme Sports. | |
| You've been around baseball players in locker rooms. | |
| Has anybody else ever treated you like this? | |
| No. | |
| No. | |
| Nobody's ever come up and grabbed me and just stuck their tongue in my mouth and feel like they can get away with it. | |
| All those soldiers you've been around, all the military bases. | |
| The soldiers have been the most well-behaved men I've ever been around in my life. | |
| Are you kidding me? | |
| They have a chain of command that they have to answer to. | |
| I've traveled with chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and sergeant majors of the Army. | |
| I mean, we're talking about some of the most well-behaved because they know that they have to answer to people. | |
| I mean, I think Al just thought, I don't have to answer to anybody. | |
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