Seeing Allred Page #8

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on the opposite side of Gloria Allred,

as a defense attorney,

I admire what she's doing.

[Levenson] If you're a woman,

and you have been

sexually harassed or assaulted

by a powerful man,

there are not many people you can go to

in the phone book.

You go to the person you see on camera.

[woman] She has won

a quarter of a billion dollars

just in sex harassment suits.

The problem for Gloria

is sometimes it backfires.

People just want to say

it's all about her,

she's just doing it for her own glory.

And I've always wondered

what that's about.

Is that because if you see a woman

who appears that secure,

you got to take her down a notch?

Karen from Boston asks...

"Is there anything you won't do

to push your ugly mug

in front of a camera?"

[laughter]

I have to think about that,

but I guess my answer would be "no."

[laughter]

Gloria Allred, anytime you see her,

you know something's going wrong.

Whatever she's bringing forth,

there ought to be

automatic doubt about it.

[Mankiewicz]

Why do you have to hire Gloria Allred

and have a press conference

other than looking for a pay day?

-Okay, everybody's got their copy, right?

-Yes.

-How's everybody feeling?

-I feel proud.

You feel proud? You should feel proud,

you should feel good.

[Wang] I've definitely experienced

kind of the blowback of adversaries

sometimes just automatically lump

her cases into, "Oh, it's Gloria Allred."

It's not worthy of attention

or that she's doing something

for her benefit

and not for the clients.

And the response to those people

is always, "Let's look at the facts,

let's look at why it matters

that we're filing this lawsuit."

Why it matters even for the public

to know about this lawsuit.

...victim of sexual assault

will be empowered...

[Wang] There's nothing shameful

about the fact

that Gloria held a press conference

about this issue,

and there's nothing shameful

about a woman

describing being sexually assaulted.

We are very proud

of our courageous clients

who came forward to assert their rights.

A very large part of our practice

is employment litigation.

Somebody was fired from their job,

they were sexually harassed,

they were discriminated against.

The vast majority of those people

are not celebrities

by any stretch of the imagination.

And that I would.

[Van Susteren] We know

about her high-profile cases.

What we don't know about

is the one that she quietly,

confidentially settles

to the great benefit of her client.

She does a great job,

whether you like it or not.

The question is,

how do her clients like it?

And apparently,

her clients are pretty happy.

[Dr. Drew] Tell me something about Gloria

Allred I don't know and nobody knows.

So, she is wicked good at skee-ball.

Uh-oh. All right, there she goes.

There she goes.

Whoo!

Okay.

Your mother has been through

two difficult marriages and divorces.

Would you like to fall in love again?

-Uh, no.

-Really?

No, I don't have time.

[Bloom] One thing we have

to learn as adults

is to accept our parents for who they are.

I used to sometimes say,

"Hey, maybe you should date that guy."

But she does not want to be

in a relationship

and she has not wanted it for many years.

Good evening. Thank you,

mother and daughter, by the way.

I want to make sure I say that.

Listen, if I never met Lisa Bloom

and they walked into a room together,

I would know that they were

mother and daughter.

It's like when you see

a family of singers

and their voices kind of sound the same,

they have the same tone.

We are calling today

for an independent investigation

into the culture of sexual harassment

at Fox News.

And I felt like my story was so...

[Bloom] My mother and I

have very similar personalities.

My mother will be very direct.

She just puts it out there.

I do the same thing.

-Okay, but you're just spitballing.

-And listening to his voice on the tape.

-[Lemon] He's making things up!

-This actually happened.

[Lemon] Both of them have been

advocates for victims rights,

but I think Gloria had to do it

in a much tougher time

than Lisa is having to do it now.

People may not realize just how tough

it was for women and for minorities.

You know, it used to be

sort of an all-boys club.

And so, it's interesting to watch

how they both deal with it

a generation apart.

And I know Lisa like I know you.

She represents women who have been abused,

sexual assault, and so on and so forth.

Why do you think she chose

to represent Weinstein?

I don't know, because I never asked her.

She has a general practice,

and she's an outstanding attorney,

and she makes her decisions

about who her clients are going to be

and who she accepts.

For people of her generation,

especially women of her generation,

to have gotten as far as she has,

to be successful as she has,

I have the utmost respect for her,

because without her,

I may not be able to sit in this chair

every night and do what I'm doing.

-Gloria, how are you?

-Hi!

[smooches]

-Love you.

-Oh, that's hilarious.

[laughs]

Guys, when you grab your sign

and your hat,

-you're gonna go right out here...

-Oh, my God.

Did you see the toilet seats

right here?

I worked at Jos Eber in the late '90s,

and they told me, they said,

"Dan, Gloria Allred's coming over,

she'd like to get her eyebrows

waxed with you."

I said, "Oh, God."

Fast forward I'm gonna say

eight or nine years ago.

Don't know how many times

we've done the parade.

I said, "Gloria, I just bought

a vintage car

and I'd like to get it

in the West Hollywood parade."

And she said,

"Dan, why don't you just drive me?"

I said, "Gloria, there's only one problem

with your entry in the parade."

She said, "What is that?"

I said, "Everything."

She said, "What do you mean?"

[laughter]

I said, "Gloria,

I see you drive by year after year,

and you're in the back and you're waving ,

and your banner's on the side.

The people driving you

are looking at their nails.

You have no music, no color,

no drag queens, no strippers,

no float, no balloons, none of the above."

She said, "What are you suggesting?"

"Drag queens, strippers, floats,

balloons, all of the above."

-And she said something I'll never forget.

-Uh-oh.

Because I was I was shocked

that these words came out of her mouth.

-Yes?

-She said...

[laughter]

"I'm afraid of what people would think."

Yeah.

I'm like, "Gloria, go with me on this one,

I'm telling you, they will get it.

It's our joke."

She says, "Okay." The next year comes,

"What do you need from me?"

I said, "I need a picture

of what you're wearing."

She rang my doorbell and I open the door,

and we're standing next to each other,

face to face,

absolutely identical,

and she said,

"I got to admit, that's funny."

[laughter]

[cheering]

It was phenomenal, the reaction,

because people knew it was our joke.

They know her pretty serious,

but they got to see a side of her,

that she allowed this to be fun.

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