Quotes

[why she stopped visiting the Playboy mansion as a young model] At one point, I met Hugh Hefner. He tried to kiss me kind of open-mouthed. I turned my head, and he kissed me on the cheek with a wet kiss. I was just really uncomfortable there. That was the end of my Playboy Mansion experiences. I went probably five or six times, and I decided it wasn't for me and moved on with my career.

[being a woman in sportscasting] I'm on a visual medium. I used to joke that yes, of course, I'm in the chair to get my hair and makeup done before I go on television, but so were Al Michaels and John Madden when I was on Monday Night Football with them. So, yeah, there's always that. But again, I don't take that stuff too seriously, especially anymore. I'm an old broad. I'm 57. I used to say I'm a size four, and now I'm a size eight because I've had to develop a thick skin.

[accusations against Hugh Hefner] You know, like everybody else, human beings are complicated. I think it's fair to say that in some ways, he definitely helped the conversation about women's body positivity and sexuality in a healthy way. I think that can be a part of his legacy. But I also think that since we've seen these stories and heard from women, there's a much darker legacy he has now. Like me, we're still processing our memories of the Playboy brand, what that Bunny meant and what that man meant. It's going to take a while to continue more and more stories because the stories aren't over. The stories continue. So as we continue to hear these stories, I think his legacy gets darker and darker and darker and darker.

[Steven Seagal] I was one of the first people in the Me Too movement to speak out about Steven Seagal. I was sexually harassed at an audition and on the set. I was the first woman, I believe, to come forward. After my story was reported in The Hollywood Reporter and around the media, seven more women came out including Julianna Margulies and Portia de Rossi with very similar stories. Finally, two women claimed that they were raped by Steven Seagal also in an audition situation eerily similar to the story I told.

[not being taken seriously as a journalist because she's an attractive female] I had over 10 years of sportscasting. I started in my 20s. I think a lot of my early career was spent putting down this notion that I didn't know sports because I was a woman or I couldn't be a good reporter because I was a pretty, younger woman. Then when I got older and wasn't younger anymore, they'd say, "Well, she's got long hair, and she's glamorous." I think there's always going to be a narrative that based on what you look like, you can't do X, Y and Z. So there's been that throughout my career. I think part of that I used to my advantage. When I confront a scam artist or a bad guy, and they see me walking up or running up to them, they may not expect me to be equipped with a lot of information about the wrongdoing (laughs). I think being a woman actually helps me in some ways. I think we use every tool in our belts, don't we?

[her experiences with the Playboy organization] When I was younger, as a teenager, I was a model. I was discovered in high school when I was 15 years old. When I got a little bit older, like probably 17-18 years old, I started to do a lot of swimwear and fitness modeling, and in Los Angeles, that's a big part of modeling. A couple of years into being signed by my then agent, I found out there was another agency called Playboy Models that also represented a lot of women that did fitness modeling and swimwear modeling, which I did. So I modeled through the Playboy Model Agency at 18, 19, 20, and I was offered an opportunity to be a Playmate at that time. I rejected it because I had big dreams of someday becoming an actor, and I wanted to be a sports reporter. I thought that if I was nude in Playboy as a Playmate, that that would not help me get where I wanted to go with my career goal someday. So I decided not to be a Playmate.