(Eagle News)—ABSCBN executive Ces Drilon on Friday, Oct. 5, denied the allegations of her colleague Gretchen Fullido against her, saying she has “always been an advocate of women’s rights and women’s empowerment.”
” As a victim of sexual harassment once before, it is unthinkable for me to say what Gretchen Fullido alleges I did,” Drilon said.
According to Drilon, “she was asked to testify in an internal, confidential investigation into Gretchen’s allegations and some of what I said during the investigation has been distorted.”
She said she “reserve(s) the right to consider legal proceedings against these false allegations and attack on my reputation.”
“I encourage and support women to exercise their rights to come out with truthful stories of harassment and abuse and I would never belittle any such move…Again I would never belittle any woman coming out to speak of any abuse committed against her. It is against everything I stand for as a woman,” she added.
Fullido has filed libel charges against Drilon, Venancio Borromeo, and reporter Marie Lozano, and sexual harassment charges against former executive producer Cheryl Favila and segment producer Maricar Asprec
Fullido said Drilon, Lozano and Borromeo “besmirched her reputation” when they said she filed a “similar sexual harassment complaint against Favila and Asprec with ABS-CBN management to leverage her employment status with ABS-CBN.”
According to Fullido, Drilon made her feel like she deserved to be harassed because she “was willing to wear a bikini with an inflatable pool with bubbles to shove up the ratings of TV Patrol.”