CBS Responds to Pauley Perrette Assault Allegations

Pauley Perrette may be out of NCIS.

But the actress is not out of the news.

Far from it, in fact.

The veteran series regular bid farewell to television’s highest-rated drama eight days ago, but she’s been making headlines ever since for a series of cryptic Tweets.

Cryptic and disturbing Tweets, we should say.

“I refused to go low, that’s why I’ve never told publicly what happened,” Perrette wrote over last weekend, adding mysteriously:

“But there are tabloid articles out there that are telling total lies about me. If you believe them? Please leave me alone. You clearly don’t know me. (Sorry guys, had to be said).”

Perrette announced in October that she was leaving NCIS, on which she had starred as forensic specialist Abby Sciuto since the very first episode.

She said she made the decision a year earlier, but didn’t mention anything at this time about trouble on set.

On May 13, however, she continued her troubling Twitter posting as follows:

There is a “machine’ keeping me silent, and feeding FALSE stories about me. A very rich, very powerful publicity “machine”.

No morals, no obligation to truth, and I’m just left here, reading the lies, trying to protect my crew. Trying to remain calm. He did it.

She then really caught the attention of outlets everywhere by alleging that bullying and/or some kind of physical abuse has taken place on set:

I’ve been supporting ant-bullying programs forever. But now I KNOW because it was ME! If it’s school or work, that you’re required to go to? It’s horrifying. I left. Multiple Physical Assaults.

I REALLY get it now. Stay safe. Nothing is worth your safety. Tell someone.

Sort of crazy, right?

NCIS just wrapped up Season 15, has been renewed for Season 16 and there’s been little to no talk at all over the years about these sort of allegations.

In response, however, CBS has acknowledged that Perrette did go to producers or higher-ups with at least one complaint in early 2017 or in 2016.

“Over a year ago, Pauley came to us with a workplace concern,” the network said in a statement to Variety on Tuesday, adding:

“We took the matter seriously and worked with her to find a resolution. We are committed to a safe work environment on all our shows.”

That’s a rather broad and vague reply, but it seems to have satisfied Perrette.

“I want to thank my studio and network CBS They have always been so good to me and always had my back,” she Tweeted after reading the statement above.

We reported yesterday that tension has existed between Perrette and lead star Mark Harmon for about two years now.

The latter apparently brought in his rescue dog in 2016, only for him to bite a crew member.

Harmon felt terrible and kept the canine away from the set for awhile… until, down the line, it had been properly trained and he could not find a dog-sitter.

Sources told Radar Online that Perrette was the only person affiliated with the show who took issue with the re-emergence of this dog and that she has held it against Harmon ever since.

It’s worth emphasizing, however, that this tiff is NOT what Perrette has been referencing with her “assault” claims.

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Pauley Perrette to Mark Harmon: You"re Dead to Me!

Pauley Perrette was not killed off NCIS.

The veteran actress, who confirmed she was leaving this long-running drama last fall, bid farewell to viewers and to her character of Abby Sciuto last Tuesday night.

Will she ever return to the program that made her famous? Perhaps for the series finale?

Based on the last couple days of Twitter messages and reporting, this seems extremely unlikely.

As previously detailed on The Hollywood Gossip, Perrette left a series of cryptic messages on social media this past weekend.

They implied very strongly that the actress was bullied and/or assaulted while an NCIS cast member, an allegation that has left the Internet full of speculative chatter.

“I’ve been supporting ant-bullying programs forever. But now I KNOW because it was ME! If it’s school or work, that you’re required to go to? It’s horrifying,” Perrette wrote online, adding:

“I left. Multiple Physical Assaults. I REALLY get it now. Stay safe. Nothing is worth your safety. Tell someone.”

This barely even qualifies as an implication, right?

This is basically a full-on accusation.

Perrette added in a separate Tweet that she refused to “go low” for years, choosing instead to remain silent and not talk “publicly [about] what happened.”

She isn’t talking directly about it now.

But she certainly has fans of the show talking and wondering.

Who could possibly have been behind this bullying? How was it kept quiet for so long?

We don’t have the answers, but we do have access to a Radar Online source who claims Perrette and lead actor Mark Harmon did not get along at all.

To be clear, this report does NOT insinuate that Harmon was the abuser to whom Perrette is referring above.

It focuses alternatively on a different source of tension between actor and actress.

Back in October of 2016, Harmon apparently brought his rescue pitbull named Dave to the set. The dog proceeded to bite a crew member, leaving the victim with a wound that required 16 stitches to close.

“Mark was obviously horrified and made sure that Dave went through re-training and was frequently checked by his vet,” the source tells Radar.

Harmon didn’t being the canine back to the set again until a much later date because he couldn’t find a dog-sitter at the time and he would be filming for nearly 20 hours.

Radar writes that everyone on set was just fine with this decision… except for Perrette.

The Radar insider says Perrette was “furious” at Harmon for placing the crew in danger again and that she acted like a “diva” from this point forward.

“She refused to shoot scenes with Mark and she refused to sit on the same side of the table as him at table reads,” the insider alleges, adding:

“She even completely ignored him any time he tried to make amends.”

Despite this history, Harmon tried to get back on good terms with Perrette one final time before the cast filmed her final episode, which aired on May 8.

But he was rebuffed.

“Pauley was having none of it,” the source says. “She completely ignored him.”

This incident and this feud with Harmon may very well have nothing at all to do with the assault allegations made by Perrette in her disturbing Tweets.

But it’s all just very interesting to consider because NCIS is the highest-rated show on network television and no one has ever discussed any sort of on-set tension of this kind until now.

“It is true that I am leaving NCIS after this season,” Perrette Tweeted in October, explaining as follows:

“It was a decision I made last year. I hope everyone will love and enjoy everything Abby not only for the rest of the season but for everything she has given all of us for 16 years.

“All the love, all the laughter, all the inspiration… I love her as much as you do.”

Hmm… a decision she made last year? And she wrote this in the fall of 2017?

So she made the decision in 2016 then, right? Which is when this whole dog-related scandal broke out.

“I feel I have to protect my crew, jobs and so many people,” Perrette added over this past weekend. “But at what cost? I don’t know.”

To watch NCIS online and to see Abby’s goodbye, click on the video below:

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Pauley Perrette (Strongly) Implies She Was Assaulted on NCIS Set

Pauley Perrette has officially left NCIS.

The actress confirmed many months ago that she planned to leave television’s highest-rated drama toward the end of Season 15, saying in October:

“There has been all kinds of false stories as to why (NO I DON’T HAVE A SKIN CARE LINE AND NO MY NETWORK AND SHOW ARE NOT MAD AT ME!)…

“I hope everyone will love and enjoy EVERYTHING ABBY not only for the rest of this season but for everything she has given all of us for 16 years.

“All the love, all the laughter, all the inspiration…I love her as much as you do.”

Perrette’s beloved character was written off last week, on NCIS Season 15 Episode 22, although writers chose to keep Abby alive.

This, in turn, left hope alive that Perrette may return to the series at some point down the line.

But we’re pretty sure Perrette has now shot down any possibility of a character reprisal — and she’s done so in cryptic/disturbing fashion.

On Saturday morning, while interacting with followers on social media, Perrette made it clear that she has been the victim of bullying.

She added that she’s been a victim of bullying at some place she had to be for years, implying strongly that these incidents took place on the set of NCIS.

Here, specifically, is the Tweet that has so many people talking and wondering:

I’ve been supporting ant-bullying programs forever. But now I KNOW because it was ME! If it’s school or work, that you’re required to go to?

It’s horrifying. I left. Multiple Physical Assaults. I REALLY get it now. Stay safe. Nothing is worth your safety. Tell someone.

Yikes, right?

This message came on the heels several other troubling messages posted by Perrette late last week.

For example:

I refused to go low, that’s why I’ve never told publicly what happened.

But there are tabloid articles out there that are telling total lies about me. If you believe them? Please leave me alone. You clearly don’t know me. (Sorry guys, had to be said).

We cannot say for certain what Perrette is alluding to here.

We follow both the celebrity gossip world and the television world pretty closely and we’ve never heard reports of this sort of behavior behind the scenes of NCIS.

That doesn’t mean it hasn’t been happening, of course.

Added the 49-year old star on Sunday as a follow-up to the previous two messages:

Maybe I’m wrong for not “spilling the beans” Telling the story, THE TRUTH. I feel I have to protect my crew, jobs and so many people. But at what cost? I.don’t know.

Just know, I’m trying to do the right thing, but maybe silence isn’t the right thing about crime. I’m… Just… ?

And then there was this Tweet, implying that forces out there (affiliated with CBS? With the show?) have been trying to keep her quiet for a long time:

There is a “machine’ keeping me silent, and feeding FALSE stories about me.  A very rich, very powerful publicity “machine”. No morals, no obligation to truth, and I’m just left here, reading the lies, trying to protect my crew.

Trying to remain calm. He did it.

Back in October, around the time she announced her departure from NCIS, Perrette told USA Today that she had been “bullied by a powerful man for way too long in a work environment until I finally said enough and took no more words from anyone, including myself that being complacent was ‘good behavior.”

So this isn’t a brand new allegation.

But it’s still a very upsetting one.

If it’s valid, let’s hope the truth soon comes out and the perpetrator brought to justice.

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Pauley Perrette Confirms NCIS Exit, Makes Fans Sad

NCIS is losing a key cast member.

But not any time in the very near future at least.

In a surprising turn of events, Pauley Perrette announced on Tuesday morning that she’s leaving the highest-rated show on network television.

Perrette, who has portrayed forensic specialist Abby Sciuto on the popular drama since its very first episode, confirmed this unexpected piece of news on Twitter.

She says she’ll at least be around through the end of NCIS Season 15, which we assume will wrap up in May.

“So, it is true that I am leaving NCIS after this season,” Perrette wrote, quickly shooting down any rumors as to why she made this choice:

“There has been all kinds of false stories as to why (NO I DON’T HAVE A SKIN CARE LINE AND NO MY NETWORK AND SHOW ARE NOT MAD AT ME!).

“It was a decision made last year. I hope everyone will love and enjoy EVERYTHING ABBY not only for the rest of this season but for everything she has given all of us for 16 years.

“All the love, all the laughter, all the inspiration…I love her as much as you do.”

NCIS airs Tuesday nights at 8/7 on CBS.

It is anchored by Mark Harmon as Special Agent Gibbs, while Sean Murray, Emily Wickersham, Wilmer Valderrama, Maria Bello, Brian Dietzen, Duane Henry, Rocky Carroll and David McCallum all co-star.

The series has lost a pair of big-time cast members in the past and managed to continue thriving in their absence.

For example, Michael Weatherly left after Season 13 and currently stars on Bull.

Cote de Pablo also memorably said goodbye to the beloved character of Ziva in 2013.

Jennifer Esposito also didn’t return this year after appearing on the series often throughout Season 14.

Once Perrette leaves, the only remaining original NCIS cast members will be Harmon and David McCallum (because Murray only recurred on Season 1).

But there’s simply no slowing down the NCIS train.

It continues to dominate in the ratings and will likely remain on the air for as long as Harmon wants to remain the star.

Will you keep watching after Perrette says goodbye, however?

Or can you not imagine an NCIS world in which she isn’t a significant player?

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Pauley Perrette: I Was Attacked By a Homeless Guy! AGAIN!

Most people know Pauley Perrette as the goth forensic scientist Abby Sciuto on NCIS.

Officers of the LAPD, however, are getting to know her as the woman who keeps randomly getting attacked by homeless people.

Back in November, Perrette claimed she was assaulted outside her house by a homeless man who was later arrested based on her description.

Now, the 46-year-old actress has taken to Twitter to share yet another lengthy account of a bizarre run-in:

Perrette says it all started when she was stopped in traffic and spotted a homeless man asking drivers for change.

“He came to my window, to take my dollar. I said God Bless You,” Perrette wrote. “He grabbed my wrist and put his whole inside my car.

“He was in my car and I was scared. I looked at my dashboard and first said, ‘I rebuke you satan (sic) in the name of Jesus Christ.”

Perrette says the man then asked for the time, she replied, “It’s 5:37,” and he walked away.

She also suggested that there were several witnesses who could have intervened, but chose not to.

Pauley adds that she had a taser and tactical knife in her car, but chose not to use them.

Not surprisingly, Perrette’s story has been met with a fair amount of skepticism online, as violent attacks from homeless men and women are statistically quite rare, and both of Pauley’s stories feature some downright bizarre details.

Of course, we have no way of knowing if the incident actually went down as she described it, so we’ll just advise the actress to invest in a can of mace and play it as safe as possible going forward.

Watch NCIS online to see Pauley do her thing in the crime lab.

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