
Molly Shannon, a comedian, claims that Gary Coleman once sexually harassed her.
According to the comedian, Coleman invited her to tea at the Plaza with their agent. Coleman invited her to his hotel suite.
Shannon stated that “And I was virgin so I wasn’t even thinking about it,” Shannon said on “The Howard Stern Show.” “He held me hand and I was like, “He’s so cute!” He was wearing a suit. He said that I reminded him a lot of Kimberly from “Diff’rent Strokes.” Mark also came up with us, and they had the presidential Suite. We went into the room, and Mark vanished.”
She continued, “I believe he was like, ‘sit down!’ It was very sweet. Then he started to tickle me a bit and other things like that. I was like, “Gary! Stop!” I was trying to be polite, and stop. I’m a polite Catholic girl who is a virgin. I don’t know anything about that! She agreed.
She said that the actor was reaching for her ankles, bouncing on the bed and trying to land on her top. He kept trying to kiss it.
“And I was like Gary, stop. So I pushed his off. I would then get up from the bed and he would jump, jump and jump on the bed. He would wrap himself around me, then I would throw him off. He then got on top me. I was like “Gary, stop!” Shannon explained that Shannon was not physically threatened by his size.