Vice Media investigated new accusations of sexual misconduct from former British TV Host Billie JD Porter.
“Ms. Porter has raised some of the allegations in her Instagram post with us and we have worked quickly and decisively to investigate them and take appropriate actions where necessary,” a Vice spokesperson told TheWrap. “We have encouraged her to give further details surrounding any allegations, so we can investigate those as well.”
In a Sunday Instagram post, Porter said that her supervisor at Vice gave her alcohol and drugs when she was still a minor and asked to perform sexual acts on him. Porter, who didn’t name the accused in her post, said she was inspired to write the post because she was disgusted at the company for handing out “women don’t forget” promotional pins during this weekend’s women’s marches.
“We encourage any current or former employee who believes they are the victim of a crime to file a police report,” a Vice spokesperson continued in a statement to TheWrap. “We will co-operate with any law enforcement enquiries that follow. We want Vice to be a working environment in which all colleagues feel valued and respected and have put in place clear procedures for colleagues to raise grievances, and a rigorous and transparent process for handling them.”
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“I haven’t forgotten being given drugs and alcohol by my boss in the office as a sixteen year old, then being asked to perform sex acts on him,” Porter wrote in her post. “I haven’t forgotten being seriously told by my producers to get drunk before filming because they thought it made me a ‘funnier’ host.”
She continued: “I haven’t forgotten the company firing me after what they called ‘inappropriate behaviour’ at a company party where I was given a cocktail of drugs by senior management who knew I was being treated for depression.”
Porter declined to comment for this story.