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Actress, singer and motivational speaker Sheryl Lee Ralph has claimed to have been sexually assaulted by a “famous TV judge” in front of network executives. While discussing her new book Diva 2.0 with Angela Yee on the Way Up podcast, Ralph was asked about her experiences with the #MeToo movement. The Abbott Elementary star recalled being in a “very public place” years ago and encountering a judge — not Judge Mathis, as she noted — who was on the same network as a TV show she was on at that time was. “This man walked in, grabbed my neck, turned me around and rammed his nasty tongue down my throat,” Ralph claimed. “And everyone on the network saw it.” She added that she then called then-New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial (who placed the incident between 1994 and 2002 when she was starring in UPN’s Moesha), who offered to do it right away to send the police. “Someone from the station tapped me on the shoulder and said, ‘Please don’t,'” Ralph said. “Do you know that they didn’t want any bad press surrounding their show and didn’t care about what just happened to me?'” She looked visibly disgusted as she described the dismissive reaction. “Things happen,” Ralph concluded. “It makes it difficult for women to talk about these things.”