The Eve of #MeToo

This is the story of a young Hollywood comedy writer who took down an evil billionaire industry executive, creating the spark that would join the flame that would become the global bonfire known as the #MeToo movement.

Los Angeles gained an idiot. Me.

I moved to Los Angeles in the spring of 2015 after a devastating break-up that left me feeling lost, empty, and directionless. I finally found someone I could spend my life with. Unfortunately, they felt the exact opposite. We lived near each other in the West Village, and New York is small enough that I knew I’d eventually run into them out with their shiny new girlfriend. The one that replaced me. So, I devised a plan to avoid further heartbreak: I moved across the country.

I never planned on staying in Los Angeles permanently, but now that I’m here, I think I’ll keep it. I didn’t have a job lined up when I arrived, but within a few weeks, I was offered a head writing position at a production company in Beverly Hills. I accepted it because being paid to write is the dream. What I didn’t know was that working there would completely break me and land me in a #MeToo lawsuit a year before #MeToo existed.

The billionaire who owned the production company assaulted me on Monday, September 19, 2016. And Gloria Allred was my lawyer by nine a.m. on Tuesday, September 20th.