‘Super Size Me’ filmmaker confesses to sexual misdeeds

WASHINGTON: “Super Size Me” star and producer Morgan Spurlock confessed in an open letter Thursday to a series of sexual misdeeds over the years, admitting: “I am part of the problem.” Hollywood has been shaken over the past months by revelations that A-list directors and actors like Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey engaged in a string of sexual abuses. Watching these big names fall, “I don’t sit by and wonder ‘who will be next?’ I wonder, ‘when will they come for me?’” wrote Spurlock, 47. The documentary filmmaker said that he had verbally harassed a female assistant, sometimes calling her “hot pants” or “sex pants.” When she quit in 2009, the woman demanded payment for the abuse. “Of course, I paid. I paid for peace of mind. I paid for her silence and cooperation. Most of all, I paid so I could remain who I was,” Spurlock wrote.