Allison Williams Addresses Controversy over Her Dad
Allison Williams, star of HBO’s Girls and daughter of Brian Williams, finally addressed the controversy surrounding her father’s history of misstatements publicly tonight. Williams sat down for a Q&A session at the 92nd Street Y in New York, and questioner Seth Meyers got the elephant in the room out of the way by asking how her family’s doing.
According to The New York Post, Williams said, “This has been a really hard time.” She made it clear that despite her father being publicly questioned about embellishing stories about himself, “One thing this experience has not done is shake my trust and belief in him as a man.”
“He’s a really good man, an honest man, a truthful man,” she said, “He has so much integrity and so much respect for journalism. And yes, he’s a really good dad. I know you can trust him because, as any good daughter does, I’ve tested him on that.”
Update- 2/19, 12:06 pm EST: There is now video available of Williams’ comments, which you can watch here:
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