George Takei wishes his sexual misconduct accuser "peace" after walking back his story

Observer

The New York Observer's Shane Snow found inconsistencies in the stories told by Takei accuser Scott Brunton, who alleged Takei sexually assaulted him in 1981, to various media outlets, starting with The Hollywood Reporter. "What I discovered after months of investigation—and after speaking at length with Brunton, people close to Takei, medical toxicologists and legal experts in sex offenses—suggests that this story needs to be recast significantly," wrote Snow. "Brunton, a sympathetic and well-intentioned man, would go on to walk back key details and let slip that, in his effort to be listened to, he’d fabricated some things. This and other evidence would indicate a hard-to-swallow conclusion: We—both public and press—got the George Takei assault story wrong." Takei tweeted a response to the article on Friday, writing: “As many of you know, this has been a very difficult period for myself and my husband Brad as we have dealt with the impact of these accusations, but we are happy to see that this nightmare is finally drawing to a close. As I stated before, I do not remember Mr. Brunton or any of the events he described from forty years ago, but I do understand that this was part of a very important national conversation that we as a society must have, painful as it might be.”