Sheryl Lee Ralph: TV Judge 'Rammed' Tongue Down her Throat

Sheryl Lee Ralph Recalls Famous TV Judge ‘Rammed’ his Tongue Down her Throat

The things people have to encounter throughout their lives are sometimes surprising. One such case is actress Sheryl Lee Ralph admitting to having to deal with being approached by a “famous TV judge” who “rammed his nasty-ass tongue down” her throat earlier in her career.

The Abbott Elementary actor appeared earlier this week on Angela Yee‘s radio show, Way Up With Angela Yee and she recalled the situation that mortified her. She was talking about her experience with an unwanted advance that was witnessed by studio executives. She did not go into detail about who, when, or where the incident took place. She did make sure to state that the judge she was referring to was not Judge Greg Mathis.

“I’m at a very public place. I was suited. I had my suit on. I was handling my business for the television show I was on at that time. He and I were on the same network. This man walked in, grabbed me by the back of my neck, turned me around, and rammed his nasty ass tongue down my throat,” Ralph alleges. “And everybody at the network saw it.”

She also stated that she reached out to the then-mayor of New Orleans Marc Morial and he suggested calling the police but was stopped by a network executive.

“Somebody at the network tapped me on the shoulder, they said, ‘Please don’t,’” Ralph recalled. “Do you know that they did not want any bad press around their show, and did not care what had just happened to me?”

As she continues to speak about the incident, she says that the executives told her that it “wasn’t really that bad.”

“That’s the kind of stuff that happens. That’s what happens, that’s what makes it hard for women to speak up about these things.”

She advises women to stay alert and if someone invites them up to their hotel room in the middle of the night, to not go. But, she did admit that she went against her own advice with one particular professional basketball player. She stated that she was invited up to Michael Jordan’s hotel room one late night and she actually went. But, instead of any sexual activity taking place, she said they played backgammon and talked about their families, and a good friendship developed out of that. She reiterated that they didn’t have sex.