Source: http://www.crazydaysandnights.net

I once watched this non-traditional A+ list athlete leave his then girlfriend at a table with friends while he got orally serviced in the garden at Chateau Marmont.

He had excused himself to go to the restroom after a female dinner companion said she was going to look at the garden.

The guy is not nice.

Shaun White

American professional snowboarder, skateboarder and musician. He is a three-time Olympic gold medalist.

Turns out Shaun White, world’s best snowboarder, can be a creep. A hero would cop to his own bad behavior

You can be a wonderful movie maker, and a sexual harasser.

You can be a great television talk show host, and a sexual harasser.

You can be an innovative tech genius, and a sexual harasser.

It only stands to reason, then, that you can be the world’s greatest snowboarder, and a sexual harasser.

Why should Olympic athletes be immune to the reckoning that is sweeping across the rest of the globe?

And yet, a question on the topic flummoxed Shaun White at his post-victory news conference in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Five hours earlier, the 31-year-old had won his third Olympic gold medal for a near-perfect performance on the halfpipe. “I’m proud of myself,” he told reporters. “I don’t say that often.”

About five minutes in, Matt Gutman of ABC News tried to raise the issue: “Shaun, over the past couple days, the sexual harassment allegations against you by Lena Zawaideh have resurfaced. Are you concerned they are going to tarnish your legacy?”

Zawaideh, 26, was the drummer in White’s rock bad, Bad Things, for years. In 2016, she filed a lawsuit accusing him of sexual harassment, wrongful termination and wage theft. Zawaideh met White in 2007, when she was a teenager.

White, who should not have been surprised by the question, was unprepared.

“You know, honestly,” he replied, “here to talk about the Olympics, not, you know, gossip.” – Source


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