Tina Turner shut down Mike Wallace’s sleazy ’60 Minutes’ sex questions: CBS employee
A former CBS employee has taken to Twitter to accuse journalist Mike Wallace of making sleazy remarks about Tina Turner’s sex appeal during an interview. Leslie Molson, who worked at CBS between 1996 and 2004, claims to have watched unreleased footage of the interview in which Wallace repeatedly made inappropriate comments about Turner’s performances and questioned how sexual she was. Molson alleges Turner became so uncomfortable with Wallace’s questioning that she stopped the production. After the camera started rolling again, Wallace profusely apologised and promised to stick to career-related questions. Molson’s account of events has gone viral, with more than 650,000 views on Twitter.
What is Leslie Molson accusing Mike Wallace of?
Leslie Molson is accusing Mike Wallace of making inappropriate comments about Tina Turner’s sex appeal during an interview, causing her to halt the production.
What happened after Tina Turner stopped the production?
After Tina Turner stopped the production, Wallace profusely apologised and promised to stick to career-related questions.
Who is Mike Wallace?
Mike Wallace was a journalist who worked at “60 Minutes” from 1969 to 2006 and is considered one of America’s most legendary news reporters.
What other allegations have been made against Mike Wallace?
In a 2021 book, network producer Ira Rosen alleged that Wallace “regularly peppered colleagues with questions about their sex lives; lashed out at them for no good reason; grabbed the bottoms and breasts of women who worked in the office; pulled them onto his lap; and snapped bra straps.” Wallace also admitted during a 1991 interview to “putting his hand on the backs of his female CBS News co-workers and unsnapping the clasps on their bras” during the 1970s and 80s.
How did Tina Turner respond to the incident?
While the incident with Wallace is being made public now, Tina Turner has appeared on CBS for multiple interviews in the years since. She even had a candid chat with Gayle King in 2018.
What was Tina Turner’s cause of death?
Tina Turner died of natural causes at the age of 83.
“Tina Turner Refuses to Tolerate Mike Wallace’s Inappropriate Sexual Questions on ’60 Minutes’, Claims CBS Staffer”
Former CBS employee Leslie Molson has taken to Twitter to allege that “60 Minutes” correspondent Mike Wallace made repeated inappropriate comments about Tina Turner’s sex appeal during a 1996 interview. Molson claims to have seen unreleased footage of the interview, in which Turner halted production after Wallace’s behavior. In the footage, Molson claims that Wallace made suggestive comments about Turner’s sexual performances, prompting Turner to mime “cut” and the footage to abruptly end. However, the final aired interview appears cordial, and Turner made multiple appearances on CBS in following years. Wallace died in 2012 and was previously criticized for his treatment of female colleagues and for pushing Barbra Streisand to tears in a 1991 interview. Turner died on Wednesday at the age of 83.