Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner denies sexual harassment allegations

Los Angeles: Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner says the sexual harassment accusation being brought against him by a former writer on his series “are not true”. “The allegations are not true, and (this) is a very important topic and a topic that I have devoted - it has been an obsession of mine, in my work and in my life, for like 92 hours of the show; we wanted people to be having this conversation,” he said during an event to promote his new novel Heather, The Totality here, reports people.com. “It’s great that we’re having it. It’s a very serious issue.” Last week, Kater Gordon, who started as Weiner’s personal assistant on Mad Men before eventually being promoted to staff writer, said that during a late night of working together, Weiner told her that she owed it to him to let him see her naked. [caption id=“attachment_4202977” align=“alignnone” width=“825”]  Matthew Weiner. Image via Facebook[/caption] When pressed by Orange Is the New Black creator Jenji Kohan, who was moderating the event, on why Gordon would make such a claim if it wasn’t true, Weiner said he didn’t “want to speak to someone else’s character”. “I have hired dozens of women over the years and dozens of people and I am a demanding boss and, I am…especially in the early years it was hard to do it,” he said. “I had a lot of stress… it’s very lonely and I got better at it for sure. When I think back on it, if I had to do it, to letting people go and being mad about having to re-write everything, you’re just angry a lot of the time, but you want the show to be great, and it’s kind of what you do.” Weiner concluded, “So I guess if I had to do it over again, I would do it differently. The person I am now would definitely do it differently. But I also just want to thank the people who I worked with over the years for all their support because they know how important this is to me and they know the kind of person that I am.”