Don Lemon Files Legal Complaint Against Megyn Kelly After Inviting His Accuser On To Tell His Story

CNN host Don Lemon has filed a legal complaint against Megyn Kelly for doing what CNN and other media outlets have done for decades: Invite people on to discuss their sexual misconduct accusations against public figures.

Radar Online obtained the complaint, filed by attorneys representing Lemon, which accuses Kelly of giving a “lopsided and inaccurate” version of the encounter between Lemon and his accuser, Dustin Hice. The complaint comes after Kelly invited Hice onto her SiriusXM radio show to discuss his allegations against Lemon.

Hice has accused Lemon of sexually harassing him in 2018, before Lemon announced his engagement to his partner. Hice alleges that at one point, Lemon “had his hand in his [Lemon’s] pants rubbing himself aggressively, and he shoved two fingers underneath” Hice’s mustache. Hice filed a lawsuit a year after the incident, claiming he has suffered “feelings of shame, humiliation, anxiety, anger, and guilt.”

As The Daily Wire reported in 2019, Hice’s boss at the time of the alleged incident, George Gounelas, came forward to corroborate the allegations.

“Dustin worked for me as a bartender [and] we went out after work one night. We were standing there and he said, ‘Hey, that’s Don Lemon,’” Gounelas told Fox News in August 2019. “Murf’s is a place you go to drink after you’ve been out drinking. We had just gotten off of work. So that’s why we ended up there, because we worked in the restaurant business. So by the time everything is done, we can only hit a late-night spot.”

Gounelas then said that Hice offered to buy Lemon a drink but Lemon declined. Lemon, according to Gounelas, later approached him and Hice.

“Don Lemon has now come around the corner and is standing face to face with us,” Gounelas added. “There is a beam, a pole, in the place. Don’s standing up against the pole, face to face with Dustin, I turn around and I’m standing right there between the two of them. He’s saying, ‘So you like me? Is that why you’re bothering me?’”

“Nah, man, I just wanted to say, ‘What’s up?’” Hice responded, according to Gounelas.

Gounelas then said Lemon “put his hands down his pants, inside his board shorts, grabbed his [genitals], and then came out with two fingers and, like, clipped Dustin’s nose up and down with two fingers asking ‘do you like p**** or d***?’”

The Daily Wire reported that a “source close to Hice’s attorney says that Lemon

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