“I was 17, but it was years later OK. I was 17, I started dating this other guy and I did not want to be a virgin. I was embarrassed that I was a virgin. I needed someone to, like, pop the cherry and make me a veteran,” she said, adding that she initiated the sexual encounter.
The issue with that statement, as Baio pointed out, is that Eggert said the encounter happened “years after” the show “Charles In Charge” was cancelled.
The show stopped airing on November 10, 1990 and one of the last shows Baio showed a script to was May 18,1990. Eggert’s birthday is January 13, 1972, which would make her 18 years old before the show went off the air.
According to Eggert’s own words the two did not have sex until years after that.
The math does not make sense for Eggert’s claim that she was 17-years-old at the time.
And that is the danger with the #MeToo movement and the idea that every woman has to be believed at their word.
Humans, including women, can make mistakes. Not everyone is in the position Baio is to have both the fortitude to fight back in the witch hunt climate of 2018, and the evidence to prove his innocence.
