John Oliver, Dustin Hoffman get into heated spat over sex harassment allegations
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Dustin Hoffman presents the Hollywood comedy award at the Hollywood Film Awards at the Beverly Hilton hotel on Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
HBO host John Oliver got into a heated discussion with actor Dustin Hoffman Monday night over the recent sexual harassment allegations made against him.
“You’ve made one statement in print — does that feel like enough to you?” Oliver asked, in reference to an apology Hoffman made after he was publicly accused by a former production assistant in The Hollywood Reporter.
Hoffman said “it didn’t happen the way she reported it.”
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}“It’s that part of the response to this stuff that pisses me off,” Oliver responded at the Q & A session commemorating the 20th anniversary of Hoffman’s film, “Wag the Dog.”
“It is reflective of who you were. You’ve given no evidence to show that it didn’t happen. There was a period of time when you were creeping around women. It feels like a cop-out to say, ‘Well, this isn’t me.’ Do you understand how that feels like a dismissal?” Oliver said according to Page Six.
Hoffman fired back, “You weren’t there.”
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}“I’m glad,” Oliver said.
Hoffman blamed the incident on the atmosphere at the time of alleged abuse.