Then: Although the mannequin and make-up artist had totally fallen for financier Ian McKee, “I wasn’t anticipating him to, you already know, give me a hoop,” she instructed Good Morning America of the 2004 proposal. They broke off their engagement a 12 months later.
Now: Greater than a decade after filming wrapped, the date night time cookbook creator—who wed highschool sweetheart Michael Broady—alleged she was sexually assaulted by a masseuse throughout her season.
“She was employed to offer me a therapeutic massage and she or he mentioned, ‘I will provide you with a tablet,'” Phillips instructed Actuality Steve franchise blogger Steve Carbone in a 2018 podcast episode. “I simply assumed it was an aspirin or one thing to loosen up my again or a Tylenol or one thing, and it wasn’t that, that is for positive.”
The very last thing Phillips remembered, “is she acquired bare and she or he was within the tub with me rubbing my again and rubbing areas that in all probability she should not have. Then I used to be put in mattress. I awoke bare. Do not keep in mind a lot.”
For years, Phillips added, she stayed quiet on the expertise “as a result of in a bizarre means, I wished to guard the franchise.” ABC and manufacturing firm Warner Bros. Tv didn’t touch upon Phillips’ declare.
