Bloom off TV’s Rose in newest harass scandal

Host accused of groping & nudity groping & nudity

Veteran TV talk-show host Charlie Rose has been accused of sexually harassing eight women, including young staffers he allegedly groped and got naked in front of, according to a bombshell report.

“He was a sexual predator, and I was his victim,” Reah Bravo, a former intern and associate producer for Rose’s PBS show, told The Washington Post.

Rose, 75, issued an apology shortly after the allegations emerged Monday but faced a swift backlash. CBS, where he co-hosts “CBS This Morning,” suspended him, and PBS said it would discontinue its nightly airing of his interview show, “Charlie Rose.”

Rose kept a stable of young female underlings referred to as “Charlie’s Angels’’ by coworkers, former employees said. He also gave women unsolicited shoulder rubs, referred to among staff as “the crusty paw,” the ex-workers said.

Five of the women who came forward to the newspaper alleged Rose would touch their legs in an apparent effort to see how they would react. Another two said he strutted around naked in their presence.

A former Rose assistant, Kyle Godfrey-Ryan, said the journalist repeatedly walked around nude as she toiled away in one of his New York City pads in the mid-2000s.

Rose, who is divorced, also would call her up at odd hours to share his fantasies of her swimming in the buff at his Bellport, LI, home, she said.

He phoned her “wanting to know details of my sex life,” she said. “‘ Who’s next to you? What do you do? Is he touching you?’ And I was like, ‘OK, Charlie, I’ll see you tomorrow.’ I just acted like it wasn’t happening.”

She said that when she went to Rose’s executive producer Yvette Vega to discuss the calls, she was told, “That’s just Charlie being Charlie.”

Rose fired Godfrey-Ryan, then 21, when he found out she had shared details of his behavior with a pal, she said.

Vega, 52, said she regrets not taking action earlier.

“I should have stood up for them,” she said in a statement. “I failed. It is crushing. I deeply regret not helping them.”

Bravo began interning for the “Charlie Rose” show in 2007 while attending graduate school at Columbia University.

She took a side gig organizing Rose’s books and tapes at his

Bellport home, where she stayed for about a week in August 2007.

Bravo said she was taken aback one evening when Rose “came up from behind me and he put his arms around me.”

“It reflected his poor judgment. How could a man of his stature and his power be doing something so inappropriate? . . . It seemed reckless,” she said.

Rose would later grope her at various times in his car, she said. One time, he grabbed “me by my hair, holding a fist of it at the base of my scalp,” she told The Washington Post.

Then, in March 2008, when Bravo was doing work in Rose’s hotel suite during a trip to Indiana, her boss stepped out of his shower naked where she could see him, she said.

The former staffer, who is now a corporate speechwriter in Europe, also claimed Rose pressed his body against hers during a flight on a small private plane.

“I felt at a loss. I mean, what am I going to do? We were how many feet up in the air?” she said, describing the encounter as “animalistic.” “I remember him being on top of me.”

Megan Creydt, a coordinator on Rose’s PBS show from 2005 to 2006, also recalled harassment from her boss.

“It was quite early in working there that he put his hand on my mid-thigh,” she said, recalling an encounter in Rose’s Mini Cooper.

“I don’t think I said anything. I tensed up. I didn’t move his hand off, but I pulled my legs to the other side of the car. I tried not to get in a car with him ever again. I think he was testing me out.”

One woman who had come to Rose’s Bellport home to talk about a job opportunity in 2010 said he came out in an open bathrobe late that night — and was naked underneath.

She started talking about “the abuse of power,” then he tried to put his hands down her pants, and she pushed him away, she claimed.

“I was scared, and I was also kind of frozen,” she said.

She said they ended up in his bedroom, where he tried to put his hands in her pants again.

“I have no recollection of how we went from here to there,” she said, adding that she left when he fell asleep. “I do remember I was crying the entire time.”

She said that before Rose dozed off, he asked, “Baby, oh, baby, why are you crying?’’

A young woman who interned for Rose in the late 1990s said female staffers were often told to work at his Manhattan apartment. Once, she was at the pad when Rose turned on his shower with the door wide open and began calling for her, she said.

“Didn’t you hear me calling you?” he allegedly asked after the woman ignored him.

A male colleague told her a few days later that she got “the shower trick.”

A female intern in the early 2000s said Rose groped her breasts and stomach while she was driving him to Manhattan.

Rose posted an apology on Twitter, admitting he had acted inappropriately but claiming that he had believed he was “pursuing shared feelings.”

“In my 45 years in journalism, I have prided myself on being an advocate for the careers of the women with whom I have worked,” the statement read.

“Nevertheless, in the past few days, claims have been made about my behavior toward some former female colleagues. It is es- sential that these women know I hear them and that I deeply apologize for my inappropriate behavior. I am greatly embarrassed.

“I have behaved insensitively at times, and I accept responsibility for that, though I do not believe that all of these allegations are accurate. I always felt that I was pursuing shared feelings, even though I now realize I was mistaken.”