Fired Host Of Wbez S Q Defends His Sexual Practices

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• Jian Ghomeshi in more employed times.

Jian Ghomeshi, founder and host of the CBC’s Q, which WBEZ airs four nights a week at 8 PM, was fired Sunday for reasons apparently related to his private life. The Toronto Star, reporting Ghomeshi’s dismissal, said it had been approached in recent months by “three young women, all about 20 years his junior, who say he was physically violent to them without their consent during sexual encounters or in the lead-up to sexual encounters.” It went on to say Ghomeshi intends to sue the CBC for “breach of contract and bad faith.”

He says he became the victim of someone who began “reframing what had been an ongoing consensual relationship as something nefarious” and of a “freelance writer who was known not to be a fan of mine.” He writes, “Together, they set out to try to find corroborators to build a case to defame me.”