The #MeToo movement gained serious traction in 2017, and that’s also the year that Morgan Spurlock made a statement of his own. In a TwitLonger post, he wrote, “When I was in college, a girl who I hooked up with on a one night stand accused me of rape.” He clarified that wasn’t how he remembered it at all, and then, he went on to talk about paying a former employee to settle a sexual harassment accusation: “I paid for her silence and cooperation,” he wrote. Spurlock talked about his chronic infidelity as well, writing, “I am part of the problem.”
“I am part of the problem,” he wrote again. “We all are. But I am also part of the solution. … I will do better. I will be better. I believe we all can.” Two years later, he sat down for a painfully honest conversation with Deadline, and said that although he had thought he was doing the right thing by adding his voice to the cause and calling on everyone to do better, the backlash was swift and harsh. He found himself canceled by the media, fans, and colleagues alike.
“I felt like I needed to share something in the midst of this conversation that just seemed to dominate that moment in time,” he said. “I regret a lot of things about it. I regret the impact it had on my family. I regret the impact it had on my friendships. … Within a week, everything was done.”
