New Tapes Reveal Tony Robbins Telling Woman to ‘Make Love to Me’ On Stage, Berating Abuse Victim as a ‘Crazy B*tch’
BuzzFeed News published a report today on self-help star Tony Robbins‘ secretive seminars in which he allegedly berated a domestic abuse victim, accused a rape victim of lying to “control men,” and pressured a female seminar attendee to have sex with him while speaking on stage.
In one incident Robbins, who published a lengthy Medium post denouncing the report and attacking BuzzFeed’s reputation, told a woman at a 2003 event that “she’s fucking using all this stuff to try and control men” after she said she had been raped.
BuzzFeed News released an audio recording of a 2018 event where Robbins can be heard responding to a woman’s story of domestic abuse by blaming her, calling her a liar, and a “crazy bitch.”
“She likes to call it emotional abuse. What the fuck is emotional abuse?” Robbins told a woman at his Date with Destiny seminar on December 9, 2018. “Are we that fucking weak that someone can’t tell you with passion what they fucking feel without them abusing you?”
The woman replied by saying “there was physical violence, too.”
“Tell me about that? What role did you play?” Robbins said. “What I find when I usually dig in and I take the time — what they call abuse, is a re-labeling of they didn’t like what the person said or did.”
He continued:
“Has he loved you, has he looked out for you? Has he put up with you when you’ve been a crazy bitch? Have you ever been a crazy bitch, ever? … Probably? Shouldn’t this guy be out, strung up, and shot? The way you describe him he certainly should and I would normally join you if I didn’t know you were lying — not that you’re lying that he is not behaving in ways that are great all the time or even harsh. But I know by your body that you’re lying. I know by the words, I know by the context that you’re lying because nobody is evil in every moment or you wouldn’t have been there for seven years.”
Another recording shows Robbins — who, according to the piece, often encourages audience members to masturbate during his seminars — telling a woman to “come up onstage and make love to me.” Two of the self-help author’s ex-security guards also alleged that Robbins also asked them to search the venue for attractive women and bring them to him, despite being married. (He denies this allegation).
BuzzFeed News obtained a 50-minute recording from a private event in which Tony Robbins ranted after a woman said her husband was violent. “Does he put up with you when you’ve been a crazy bitch?” he asked. pic.twitter.com/S2zRiGSyGl
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In a statement by Robbins’ legal team, he insisted that he did not engage “in any alleged ‘inappropriate sexual behavior’” and never had “a verbal or written sexual harassment or abuse complaint” filed against him.
“He has made mistakes in relationships and other aspects of his life but he never behaved in the manner intimated by these salacious and false accusations,” the letter added.
In his Medium post refuting the report, Robbins accused BuzzFeed News of trying “to disparage me personally” and accused the outlet’s reporters of publishing the article with the intent to “‘take Tony Robbins down.'”
“We have evidence to prove that your reporters rejected and otherwise ignored factual accounts from several individuals you contacted,” he claimed, before citing a survey that ranked BuzzFeed as “the least trusted” news outlet. “In some cases, those individuals were even harassed and lied to when their accounts did not align with Buzzfeed’s predetermined thesis.”
“It stands to reason that you are presently facing financial, organizational, and management troubles,” Robbins continued. “BuzzFeed is unapologetically fueling the current cultural divide by targeting well-known individuals with false allegations to boost its readership and serve its shareholders.
The life coach included a message for the “millions of people [who] have experienced life-changing breakthroughs and transformations on our journey of growth,” writing that, “I invite them to join me now to stop BuzzFeed and others from tearing our society down by denying and mischaracterizing the truth.”
Last year, Robbins apologized for attacking the #MeToo movement after a woman asked for his thoughts at a seminar.
“I apologize for suggesting anything other than my profound admiration for the #MeToo movement,” he said after his comments smearing the #MeToo movement as a “drug” women are using to “try to get significance.”
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