Molly Shannon says she was sexually harassed by ‘Diff’rent Strokes’ star Gary Coleman

Comedian Molly Shannon says she was sexually harassed by “Diff’rent Strokes” star Gary Coleman at the beginning of her career.

Shannon, while appearing on “The Howard Stern Show” to talk about her new memoir “Hello, Molly!” was asked by Stern about the part of the book where she recounts the experience.

Shannon, 57, told Stern she had landed Coleman’s agent, and the agent asked her if she wanted to meet the giant. She was excited at first, but after her agent led her to Coleman in the president’s suite of a hotel, she said, the agent “disappeared.”

Coleman, Shannon said, let her sit on the bed and then started tickling her.

“I’m trying to be polite and everything, I’m a polite Catholic girl – and a virgin,” Shannon said. “So I don’t even think about, I’m naive about anything about that.”

Shannon said Coleman repeatedly tried to kiss her and climax her. “He was relentless,” she said.

“I would get out of bed, then he would bounce on the bed – jump, jump – then he would wrap around me and I would knock him out,” Shannon recalls.

“I guess because of his size, I didn’t feel physically threatened,” she said. But “I’m really breathless because it’s like sports and aerobics.”

Coleman, died in 2010 at the age of 42, about 4’8.

Shannon said she tried to retreat to the bathroom, but Coleman grabbed her leg. She was able to shake him off and lock herself in the bathroom, she said.

But when she was there, Coleman “putted his hand in the door, and he was like, ‘I can see you,'” Shannon said.

She said she ended up “running” out of the room.

“I thought I was probably very polite,” Shannon said, but told her agent “you have to keep an eye on your client.”

Shannon told Stern: “I wish I could stand up or stand up on my own.

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