According to a new lawsuit, an Emmy-nominated weatherman for Spectrum News NY1, Erick Adame, claims he was fired after someone on an adult webcam site took nude photos of him and sent them to his boss.
Adame released a statement on Instagram shortly after he filed court papers on Monday. He proceeded to announce his termination and revealed that he was seeking professional help over what he described to be ‘compulsive behavior’.
“Despite being a public figure and being on television in the biggest market in the country in front of millions of people five days a week for more than a decade and a half, I secretly appeared on an adult webcam website,” Adame confessed in the post.
“It was absurd of me to think I could keep this private,” he wrote. “Nevertheless, my employer found out and I was suspended and then terminated.”
His legal petition in his Manhattan Supreme Court says a man took naked photos of him without his permission on the video chat website, identified as Unit 4 Media LTD.
The person then sent the pictures to his mother and NY1 with intent of harassing, annoying, or alarming Adame and tortiously interfering with Adame’s employment relationship,” the court documents said.
Adame is seeking a court order to force the site to reveal the identity of the person, whose usernames include Sonal Prehonn, Tommysize29, Funtimes99, and Landonboy227. Adame noted he intends to sue them, but needs their real identity to do so.
In his Instagram statement, Adame apologized to his employer, his co-workers, his audience and friends and family for any embarrassment or humiliation he may have caused them.
“I had the job of my dreams and I lost it due to my own lapse in judgment,” he wrote. “I assure you I’m getting professional help, so I can make appropriate decisions that don’t affect those I care deeply about, as well as my career, while moving forward in my life.”
Adame added that he doesn’t apologize for being gay or sex-positive and pleaded with potential future employers to give him a second chance rather than defining him on the “salacious video” that’s only a couple of minutes long.
“I acted out my compulsive behaviors, while at home, by performing on camera for other men,” Adame wrote, adding the videos were “100% consensual” on both sides and that he wasn’t paid for them.
He said, “I’ve learned a valuable lesson. I assure future employers that I will be an exemplary employee and the most informed and enthusiastic meteorologist you have ever seen.”
Unit 4 Media’s lawyer Lawrence Walters said, “Our client’s policy is to comply with lawfully issued subpoenas and to provide relevant user data when legally required.”
Walters noted, “Capturing and disseminating user content without consent violates our client’s Terms of Service and forum Rules which may result in a suspension or banning of the offending accounts.”
A judge will rule on Adame’s petition at a later date.
He proves you can’t fix stupid!
You play You Pay. He is a grown man and should have anticipated this could happen in a digital world.
Who cares. It was private & consensual. The person that illegally shared the video is the problem. Go after them.
He wants to be on TV again. I think that’s a given. He wants to sue someone; can he sue himself for stupidity (1) and losing his job(2)?
I admire his ability to see what he did was wrong and ask for forgiveness. Says a lot for his character. He did NOT blame others for his actions. That is differnt in todays world of it is your fault crazies.
He had to be super horny to frolic as such. I’ve never been eat up with being seriously horny enough step foot where he did!
He’s a typical liberal pervert. I guarentee he voted for Biden.
I heard he was fired for promising his viewers 6-8 inches