Mark Halperin Apologizes to Women He ‘Mistreated’
One day after losing a TV gig, a book deal and an HBO project in the wake of several sexual harassment claims, the
political journalist Mark Halperin has released a long statement apologizing to the women he said he “mistreated.”
“Toward the end of my time at ABC News, I recognized that I had a problem,” he said.
Mr. Halperin said that he took weekly counseling sessions after he left ABC News in 2007, while adding
that “some of the allegations that have been made against me are not true.”
In the statement, he also said that his workplace misconduct stopped after he left ABC.
“Those who have worked with me in the past decade know
that my conduct in subsequent jobs at Time, Bloomberg, NBC News and Showtime has not been what it was at ABC,” he wrote.