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23rd December 2021
11:28am GMT

The lawsuit was led by Sarah Tither-Kaplan and Toni Gaal who claimed he had abused his position of power.
Now speaking to SiriusXM this week, he said: "In 2018, there were some complaints about me and an article about me and at that moment I just thought, 'I'm gonna be quiet, I'm going to pause'.
"It did not feel like the right time to say anything.
"There were people that were upset with me and I needed to listen."
He continued: "There's a writer called Damon Young and he talked about when something like this happens, then the natural human instinct is to just make it stop.
"You want to get out in front of it and (do) whatever you have to do, apologise and get it done.
"What that doesn't do is allow you to do the work and look at what was underneath.
"Whatever you did, even if it was a gaffe or you said something wrong, there's probably an iceberg underneath, of behaviour, of patterning, or just being blind to yourself that isn't just going to be solved overnight.
"I was in recovery before for substance abuse. There were some issues that I had to deal with that were also related to addiction.
"And so I've really used my recovery background to kind of start examining this and changing who I was."Explore more on these topics: