Viewers rally behind Michigan news anchor who said he was a victim of Dr. Richard Strauss at Ohio State.
When Michigan news anchor Mike Avery revealed that he was one of the many former Ohio State University athletes who say they wereIt turns out he had nothing to worry about.exclusive interview with NBC News’ Gabe Gutierrez
“The support from our viewers and West Michigan was overwhelmingly positive,” he said. “In fact, I’m still getting messages today and mail is showing up at the station.”“I can’t tell you how many emails and Facebook messages we got, but it was a hundred percent supportive, not a negative message in the bunch,” Blanton said. “We even got messages from some people who shared their own stories about being abused.
Appearing with two former OSU wrestlers, Michael Rodriguez and Nick Nutter, Avery told NBC News that Strauss assaulted him during a sophomore year physical. He said the doctor gave him a groin examination that “felt like it went on forever.”But Avery said he was too ashamed to tell his coaches or his loved ones. And for 30 years, what happened in Strauss’ examination room was a closely-guarded secret that ate away at him and made it difficult for him to form relationships and trust people.
in May which concluded that coaches and athletic administrators knew for two decades that Strauss was molesting male athletes but failed to sound the alarm or stop him.“I had to sit them down and tell them what happened to me,” he said. “We didn’t sugarcoat it.”
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