Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Robin Williams groped me on Mork and Mindy
...but it was so much fun says co-star Pam
ROBIN Williams groped and flashed his Mork & Mindy co-star but she never took offence because he was so charming.
Pam Dawber, 66, says the late Oscar winner repeatedly grabbed her breasts and bum.
And he stripped in front of her, wrestled her and even broke wind on her while making the US sitcom, which ran from 1978 to 1982.
Dawber, who played Mindy alongside Williams’ Mork, excused his behaviour as being part of his playful, madcap personality.
“I was flashed, humped, bumped, grabbed,” she said. “I think he probably did it to a lot of people but it was so much fun.
“He’d look at you, really playful, like a puppy. Then he’d grab your t**s and run away.
“Somehow he had that magic. If you put it on paper you would be appalled. I never took offence. It was the Seventies, after all.”
Mork & Mindy’s director Howard Storm said there was “nothing lascivious about it, in his mind it was just Robin being Robin”.
Her revelations in a new biography of the comedian may upset some of his fans – and fly in the face of the #Metoo movement against sexual harassment.
Mork & Mindy – about a woman who befriends an alien – made him one of the world’s top comics and the star of films like Dead Poets Society. He hanged himself in 2014 aged 63 after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.