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Katherine Ryan has hit back at critics who had something to say years after she admitted she once gave her boss oral sex so she could leave work early.
The comedian, 42, made the revelation to journalist Louis Theroux, 55, back in 2022 as she spoke to him as part of the TV series Louis Theroux Interviews.
She took to Instagram on Tuesday to clarify that she was neither ‘proud nor shameful’ of the choices she made in the past and also shared a clip of herself telling Louis about the sexual arrangement with her boss.
She wrote: ‘Based on the reaction to this clip over the last two years, I think people mostly seem confused that I’m neither proud, nor am I shameful of the choices I made in my “youth”, as a young adult, when my frontal lobe was still developing.
‘Culture moves so fast and those of us from what I call ‘the girl band generation’ navigated being objectified and participating in objectifying ourselves. It’s a bit different now.’
The 2022 interview was shared on Stream4U this week and in it, Louis questions Katherine about sleeping with her boss.
Katherine confirms she said to her employer: ‘If I suck you d**k, can I leave early? Something like that.’
A stunned Louis responded: ‘You really said that?’, to which Katherine responded: ‘Yeah. But I liked him. That’s key. He wasn’t just some guy.’
When Louis asked what her bosses’ reply was, she said: ‘He said yes you can. Of course you can. So then I sucked his d**k and I left early’.
She went on to claim that ‘several’ of the girls in the office had the ‘same arrangement’.
The broadcaster then remarked that those in the office who wanted to leave early but didn’t want to engaged in the sexual activity were at a disadvantage, suggesting they were ‘the losers in the transaction’.
With Katherine then insisting that the man in question would ‘never’ have made the suggestion himself.
Louis then asked if she has the same viewpoint now or if she would call out her boss for being ‘totally inappropriate’, with Katherine admitting it was ‘tricky’ as she really liked the guy and had a ‘crush’ on him.
She added: ‘I have never sucked the d**k of anyone I didn’t like… at the time.’
Though she’d experienced backlash for her comments over the years, recent remarks on her latest post showed many fans were also in support of her.
They penned: ‘The power imbalance was key, he was in the wrong not her. I feel sorry for her, but also recognise she felt empowered to do it.’
‘She liked him.. They were friends. There was consent. She got to leave early. What’s the problem? If you don’t want to do this, don’t. Don’t judge someone else because they did/would.’
‘She didn’t have a problem… he didnt have a problem…. where is the problem??’
‘She doesn’t regret it, it was her idea, she liked him, she got to leave early. I think this is perfectly acceptable. At the time totally normal. It was probably the noughties and it was all a bit like that then wasn’t it!’
This wasn’t the only bombshell made during her explosive chat with Louis.
In the same interview, Katherine claimed to have told a comedian ‘to his face’ that he was a sexual predator and that accusations against this person were an ‘open secret’.
The Canadian comic told Louis that she had confronted the unnamed man while they worked together on a TV show in front of the audience ‘again and again’.
Katherine said she had no qualms with doing so as she had decided to handle it ‘like a man’ – although the confrontation itself was later cut from the broadcast.
Claimed she had received criticism afterwards for not naming the person in question in public, but said just talking about him was a ‘litigious minefield’ as he had ‘very good lawyers’.
The star, who is currently pregnant with her fourth child, added that it was ‘not my story to tell’ but that she believed the accusations as the sources were ‘very credible’.
