‘Super Size Me’ Director Details His Own Sexual Misconduct

NEW YORK, NY — Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock wrote about several examples of his own sexual misconduct in a blog post titled “I am Part of the Problem” on Wednesday night. Spurlock, who directed “Super Size Me” in 2004, confessed in the blog posted to his Twitter account: “Over my life, there have been many instances that parallel what we see everyday in the news.”

He went on to describe a night in college in which he slept with another student after a night of drinking.

“We took off our clothes. She said she didn’t want to have sex, so we laid together, and talked, and kissed, and laughed, and then we started having sex,” he wrote.

“ … and then she started to cry. I didn’t know what to do. We stopped having sex and I rolled beside her. I tried to comfort her. To make her feel better. I thought I was doing ok, I believed she was feeling better. She believed she was raped,” he added.

The misconduct continued into his professional career, he wrote.

“I would call my female assistant ‘hot pants’ or ‘sex pants’ when I was yelling to her from the other side of the office. Something I thought was funny at the time, but then realized I had completely demeaned and belittled her to a place of non-existence.”

Spurlock, a native of Beckley, West Virginia, wrote he paid the assistant after she decided to quit to keep her quiet about his verbal abuse.

He also revealed he was the victim of sexual abuse in his teens and that he’s struggled with alcohol throughout his life.

Then: he promised to “do better.”

“ ... I am also part of the solution,” he wrote. “By recognizing and openly admitting what I’ve done to further this terrible situation, I hope to empower the change within myself. We should all find the courage to admit we’re at fault.”

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