I WAS FORCED INTO SEX WITH BOB BARKER TO KEEP MY JOB!
AME show legend Dian Parkinson has revealed the shameful goings-on behind the scenes on The Price Is Right — charging lust-crazed host Bob Barker turned her into his personal sex slave!
The blond bombshell says she endured physical and emotional humiliation and abuse at the hands of the powerful TV star, who forced her into sleazy sex acts that triggered health issues and, ultimately, a miscarriage.
Calling him a “monster,” Dian insists: “I was Bob Barker’s sex slave — and there was nothing I could do about it.”
Dian claimed Barker, then 70, threatened to have her fired unless she submitted to his slimy sexual cravings, say sources close to the beauty, who left the show nearly 25 years ago.
“Bob laid it on the line — he said if I wanted to keep my job, I’d have to give him what he wanted,” she told the source. “Dian said he’d call her into his dressing room for sex, and she gave in to protect her job.
“God knows what this man did to her behind closed doors, but I’ve seen the look in her eyes … the eyes of an emotionally and sexually tormented woman.”
The sordid antics she endured have left her in “torment,” says the pal. “She relives it each and every day.”
Barker, now 94 and retired, be-
‘There was nothing I could do about it’
came tangled in an ugly scandal when Dian threatened to sue him for harassment in May 1994.
At the time, the game show host told reporters she had demanded a $8 million payoff or would go to court.
Barker, whose wife, Dorothy Jo, died in 1981, publicly admitted he’d had an affair with Dian, but insisted they were “consenting adults having sex.”
Dian, who was earning only $2,000 a week after 18 years on the hit show, insists she didn’t consent to Barker’s advances.
“She told me that for more than three years, he forced her to have sex against her will,” says her friend. “Dian said Barker always called himself ‘Daddy’ and called his dressing room ‘Daddy’s room.’
“After, he’d dismiss her and take a nap. Dian once told me, ‘I feel like a sex toy, something for him to play with and throw away when he’s finished.’ ”
Two sources on the show’s set say they witnessed Dian go into Barker’s dressing room in a bathrobe and leave about 20 minutes later looking disheveled.
“We all knew what was going on,” says one.
Dian claims Barker’s sexual abuse left her with a bleeding ulcer, and she quit to save her life in June 1993.
“I told everyone I left to pursue other avenues of my career,” she told the pal. “But my doctors told me it was the show and possible death — or quit ... The only answer was to get away from that monster Bob Barker.”
The show’s bigwigs bought her silence by continuing to pay her $2,000 every two weeks, she claimed.
They said it was medical compensation for the ulcer.
She filed an $8 million lawsuit against Barker and show producers for sexual harassment on June 6, 1994 — claiming he extorted her into a three-year affair with threats of firing that resulted in a miscarriage.
Now 73, she was forced to drop the suit in April 1995 due to legal costs.
In the more than 20 years since, the show was hit by at least ten lawsuits with charges including sexual harassment by other female employees.
When Barker retired in 2007, some say he was forced off due to the charges.
“If this had all happened today, Barker might have been labeled another Harvey Weinstein,” says Dian’s friend. “He was able to walk away virtually scot-free — but she was destroyed!”