Zoe Lister-Jones has revealed new allegations against Chris Noth.
The 39-year-old Life In Pieces actress has also come forward with allegations of her own. Her statement comes in the wake of THR’s bombshell report in which two women accused the actor of sexual assault.
Zoe stated that she saw Chris being “sexually inappropriate with a fellow female promoter” when she was working at a club owned by Chris. She also spoke about his behavior when she worked with him on an episode of Law And Order.
Read her statement in full right here:
“Last week, my friend asked me how I felt about Mr. Big’s death on And Just Like That, and I said, honestly, I felt relieved. He asked why and I told him it was because I couldn’t separate the actor from the man, and the man is a sexual predator. My friend was alarmed at my word choice. And to be honest so was I. I hadn’t thought of this man for so many years, and yet there was a virility to my language that came from somewhere deep and buried.
In my twenties I worked at a club in NY that Chris Noth owned and on the few occasions he would show up, he was consistently sexually inappropriate with a fellow female promoter. That same year I was a guest star on Law and Order and it was his first episode returning as a detective after SATC. He was drunk on set. During my interrogation scene he had a 22 oz. of beer under the table that he would drink in between takes. In one take he got close to me, sniffed my neck, and whispered, “You smell good.” I didn’t say anything. My friend at the club never said anything. It’s so rare that we do.
Part of being a woman in this world is taking a certain amount of pride in knowing how to handle yourself in these situations. In denying their impact as a means of survival. And burying the feelings that come with the transgressions that we have been taught are simply to be expected.
My experiences are small in comparison to the accounts of assault that have so bravely been shared today. But navigating predation at any level is a burden all women have to bear. And for the most part there is no accountability, and no consequence. Chris Noth capitalized on the fantasy that women believed Mr. Big represented. And those fantasies often create environments where emotional confusion thrives. Perhaps Big’s death is the communal grief we must all face in mourning that fantasy, in releasing that male archetype we as women have been fed through popular culture, and confronting its dark and pervasive underbelly.
F–k Mr. Big.”
Also in the wake of the allegations, fitness company Peleton has deleted their new viral ad featuring Chris. The ad, which also features Ryan Reynolds, has been scrubbed from their social channels.
