Saturday Night Live was a treacherous place for young women, according to a new exposé. Business Insider reports that multiple former female staffers from the early aughts of the long-running sketch show described an environment that was routinely uncomfortable and at times unsafe.
One young staffer said she would be hard-pressed to find more than two women who "had a great experience or felt valued" at SNL: "It was an incredibly sexist environment,” she said. The staffer described a situation in which she said former cast member Horatio Sanz, who is currently facing a lawsuit alleging he sexually assaulted a 17-year-old in 2002, followed her into a room and asked to touch her breasts. In another instance, a producer brought her into his office and showed an unsolicited nude photo of himself.
