Scott Baio came forward on Wednesday’sGood Morning Americato refuteNicole Eggert’s molestation claimsin an interview with host Amy Robach.
“I don’t know if you’ve ever been on a sitcom set.
“I have no idea what that means,” Baio told Robach.
“So you might’t just keep making up different things.”
“I had never experienced anything like that before either,” she had told Kelly.
“So he was playing on not only my emotions, but my hormones and all of those things.
And it’s scary.
That’s intimidating, especially when you’re that young.”
“That was my delusion and that was my cover-up always,” she had said.
“And that’s not the first time I covered it up.
I always lied about it because I didn’t want anybody to know.”
Richie released a statement toMegyn Kelly TODAYto support Eggert.
“Nicole was distraught after the interview, and off air she was an emotional wreck.
She told me it was much worse than she described on air.
She said, ‘He molested me as a child, and I didn’t know any better.'”
“I don’t know what they’re saying,” Baio told Robach of these statements.
“Her job is not to defend me.
My job is to defend my daughter.
Her job is to be 10 years old, and that’s why this has got to stop.”
Watch the full interview in the video above.
