Craig McLachlan to sue over sexual harassment claims
Craig McLachlan has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons in 2018, and it appears the former Neighbours star has finally had enough, filing defamation proceedings against Fairfax Media and the ABC on Thursday.
News.com.au reports the Gold Logie winning actor is set to contest claims that he sexually harassed several former colleagues, with former co-star Christie Whelan Browne among the names mentioned in the defamation suit.
McLachlan’s statement of claim lodged in the NSW Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon, focuses on brown who he says committed “indecent acts” on him.
The claim states Browne was "herself a notoriously foul-mouthed person who publicly distributed offensive matter and had expressed interest in deviant sexual practices."
A joint investigation between Fairfax Media and the ABC earlier this year reported several cast members of a 2014 run of The Rocky Horror Show had accused McLachlan of sexual harassment, leading to him to pull out of the show’s current run in Adelaide.
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