Sarah SilvermansaysLouis C.K.used to masturbate in front of her consensually when the two were coming up in comedy together.
During an interview on SiriusXM’sThe Howard Stern Showon Monday, Silverman, 47, opened up about her relationship with C.K., 51, almost a year aftermultiple women accused him of sexual misconduct.
“I don’t know if I’m going to regret saying this,” she continued. “I’ve known Louis forever. I’m not making excuses for him. Please don’t take this that way. But, you know, we are peers. We’re equals. When we were kids and he used to ask if he could masturbate in front of me, sometimes I’d go, ‘F— yeah, I want to see that!’ It was like science.”
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Silverman said her situation with C.K. was “not analogous” to the women who came forward with allegations against the comedian in aNew York Timesarticle last year, because unlike those women, “he could offer me nothing.”
“We were only just friends,” she said. “So sometimes, yeah, I wanted to see it. It was amazing. Sometimes I’d be like, ‘F—ing gross, no,’ and we’d get pizza.”
“I’m not saying what he did was okay. I’m just saying, at a certain point, when he became an influential — not even famous — but influential in the world of comedy, it changes,” she said. “He felt like he was the same person, but the dynamic was different, and it was not okay.”
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Attempting to explain the dynamics of her relationship with C.K., Silverman said the two “hung out all the time” and “talked openly,” though they “very early on established that we were bros.”
“We were letting our freak flags fly,” she said. “He used to live in this atrium building — I wrote about it in my book. We, in the middle of the night, would take off all our clothes and throw them all the way down to the first floor and then ride the elevator down completely naked, terrified someone was going to come in, and then go put our clothes on and do the whole thing again. It was exhilarating.”
Silverman said she hopes C.K. can address the situation during his standup in the future.
“I’m not saying everyone should embrace Louis again,” she said. “I believe he has remorse. I believe he can come back. I just want him to talk about it on stage. But comics don’t like to be told what to do, so he’s going to have to find his way or not find his way.”
PEOPLE has reached out to C.K.’s attorney for comment. Silverman’s rep did not respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Silverman previously said she feltconflicted about the situationand wasn’t sure how she felt about her longtime friend.
“Life is complicated. Love is even more complicated. But you can’t not do it,” she toldGQin May. “I don’t have some definitive sound bite or nutshell of how I feel about it, even to myself. But I’m also okay with that.”
“He’s my brother, so it’s hard,” she added. “I may not have a very clear perspective on it, but I’m trying to.”
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C.K. initially responded to theTimesreport with alengthy statementin which he admitted that “these stories are true.”
“The hardest regret to live with is what you’ve done to hurt someone else,” he said. “And I can hardly wrap my head around the scope of hurt I brought on them … I have spent my long and lucky career talking and saying anything I want. I will now step back and take a long time to listen.”
One of C.K.’s accusers responded to Silverman on Twitter shortly after the Stern interview aired
source: people.com
