Illeana Douglas Tells ‘The View’ Why She Didn’t Immediately Report Les Moonves Assault

Actress Illeana Douglas was among the first women to speak out publicly against CBS CEO Les Moonves. Now, after she and others told their stories about how he sexually harassed and assaulted them, he has been ousted from his perch as one of the most powerful men in media.

On Tuesday, Douglas made her first television appearance since Moonves’ downfall—notably choosing to sit down with ABC’s The View as opposed to the CBS knockoff The Talk, which, until very recently, was moderated by Moonves’ wife Julie Chen.

Douglas, perhaps best known for her roles in films like Goodfellas and Cape Fear, retold her story about Moonves to The View co-hosts, from the way Moonves told her she and her sitcom co-star were going to be “the next Laverne and Shirley” to the call she received saying he wanted to see her in his office to talk to her about her “attitude.”

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