Retta 'Didn't Appreciate' Babe.Net's Aziz Ansari Story
LatestOn Sunday, Parks and Recreation star Retta hosted an event at the Vulture Festival in Manhattan to promote her new show, Good Girls, and her new book, So Close to Being the Shit, Y’all Don’t Even Know. At some point in the midst of all the plugging, someone managed to slip in a question about January’s Babe.net article detailing a young woman’s sexual misconduct allegation against Retta’s Parks and Rec co-star, Aziz Ansari. Retta “didn’t appreciate” the piece, she said.
According to Vulture, reporter Alex Jung asked Retta, who is friends with Ansari, to address the Babe.net story, in which a 23-year-old woman named Grace alleged that on a date with Ansari in September 2017, Ansari persuaded her to engage in certain sexual acts, despite her verbal and nonverbal protest. The piece sparked conversation about what falls under the #MeToo umbrella that burst open last year after dozens of women accused mogul Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault. It specifically called attention to the line where bad sex meets sexual misconduct. But apparently that’s not a conversation Retta thinks is worth having.