A Bill O'Reilly accuser who reached a $9 million settlement after accusing her Fox News boss of sexual harassment has claimed that he allegedly once told her he was 'going to make her play' even after she denied his advances.
In a lengthy interview with the Daily Beast on Tuesday, Andrea Mackris broke her years-long silence to speak for the first since signing an NDA and settling her sexual harassment lawsuit against O'Reilly back in October 2004.
Mackris, who worked as a producer on O'Reilly's show for four years, claims she was pressured into signing the NDA and that she has lost everything she since agreed to keep silent about her allegations.
In response to Mackris speaking out, O'Reilly's attorney Fredric S. Newman pointed to the public statement she issued in 2014 in which she said 'there was no wrongdoing whatsoever by Mr O'Reilly'.
Details of the alleged sexual harassment were made public when Mackris sued her boss in 2004, claiming he called her late at night masturbating and demanding phone sex.
Included in her lawsuit was recordings of calls he made to Mackris late at night in which he allegedly shared his sexual fantasies with her, including how he wanted to use a 'loofah thing' on her in the shower, which he mistakenly called a 'falafel'.
The now-50-year-old revealed that she first decided to take legal action after receiving one of those phone calls in which she claims O'Reilly told her she needed to forget that he was her boss.
Andrea Mackris broke her years-long silence to speak for the first since signing an NDA and settling her sexual harassment lawsuit against her Fox News boss Bill O'Reilly back in October 2004
'It's why I went to lawyers. I had to find protection. I wasn't safe at work,' she told the Daily Beast regarding the phone call.
'He was describing what I could expect next... He said I would masturbate facing him as he sat on the edge of the bed, naked and masturbating.
'He said that it wouldn't be sex because we wouldn't be touching. He said I needed to suspend the fact that he was my boss. He characterized this 'little fantasy outlet' as 'healthy' for me and simply 'blowing off steam.' He said it would keep me in traction for the next guy I dated. He made it sound as if he would be doing me a favor.
'He always wanted me to join him in masturbating on the phone. I never did. He mocked my lack of participation as 'hibernation' and 'celibacy.' Once again, like every other time, I asked him why he continued to do this when I only ever said 'No' and 'Please stop' and 'You're my boss.'
'I was trying to snap him out of it, I was thinking that it would click for him one of these times how wrong this was. I wanted very badly for him to stop and I made that abundantly clear.
'Instead, he said, 'I know, but I'm going to make you play.' Here was my boss, a man who held my career and future in his hands, acknowledging that he knew I'd never consented but he didn't care. And he said it with a low, dark growl, 'I know, but I'm going to make you play,' like a voice that comes from under the ground, a place that's red hot and full of hurt. That's what his words felt like as they landed in my body. The voice of the Devil, pacing and hungry for more of what is not his to take.
'I went to lawyers after that phone call. I stood up to Bill O'Reilly's sexual abuse in
