LIFE coach Tony Robbins has been slammed for saying women are using the #MeToo movement as “a drug” to make themselves “significant”.

The millionaire self-help guru was caught on tape describing #MeToo as an excuse for women to use “victimhood” for their own means.

He then went on to tell a bizarre anecdote about a “famous, powerful man” who chose not to hire a “very attractive” woman as it was “too risky to have her around”.

Robbins made the comments on March 10 at a seminar in San Jose, California, but the speech has only just gone viral.

“If you use the #MeToo movement to try to get significance and certainty by attacking and destroying someone else… all you’ve done is basically use a drug called significance to make yourself feel good,” Robbins told the audience.

Wow, @TonyRobbins.



This is appalling. And just gross. Good luck trying to recover from this. #MeToo https://t.co/YRSo4kbE6k — Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) April 7, 2018

I've never understood the appeal of Tony Robbins...and it's always shocked me how many influential and powerful people rely on his advice... https://t.co/qk27i0VTas — Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) April 7, 2018

Robbins told the audience he wasn’t “knocking the #MeToo movement,” but was “knocking victimhood.” He addressed the crowd, asking them to consider the impact of it while saying “anger is not empowerment.”

“Who should throw the stone? You shouldn’t throw that stone if you live in a f---ing glass house,” Robbins said. “Is there any one of us that hasn’t done something that we prefer we’d not or that we’re embarrassed by or that was hurtful even if we didn’t intend it to?”

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The founder of the #MeToo movement, Tarana Burke took to Twitter to blast Robbins for his “misogyny”. She said the footage was incredibly damaging considering how influential Robbins is.

The life coach’s website says he’s “empowered more than 50 million people from 100 countries”.

“If you choose to keep supporting him it’s with full knowledge of his views on women and survivors,” Ms Burke tweeted.

This Tony Robbins news has really ruined charlatans for me — Jess Dweck (@TheDweck) April 8, 2018

Women: please don't rape or sexually harass us! Please don't pass us over for jobs when we're the most qualified candidate!



Tony Robbins*: ladies, this need you have for significance is getting really out of hand.



*on a Jumbotron — Shannon Coulter (@shannoncoulter) April 7, 2018

During his speech, an audience member named Nanine McCool, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, is given a microphone to ask Robbins a question. She starts off by saying, “I think you misunderstand the #MeToo movement...” before Robbins cuts her off.

When Ms McCool gets the floor back almost a full two minutes later, she explains that she feels Robbins has mischaracterised an entire movement by claiming that women are using it for their own personal gains.

Robbins then goes on to use Ms McCool to make his point. He walks her backwards through the aisle of the stadium by pushing against her fist, asking her why she’s resisting his push in order to make his point. Pushing against someone else doesn’t make you more safe, he explains.

This woman stands a lot taller than Tony Robbins does. The #MeToo movement is important and I can’t imagine the strength it takes to speak out against an abuser. Tony, you are wrong. https://t.co/FVOM51kNQ6 — Adam Rippon (@Adaripp) April 7, 2018

Thank you so much @NanineMcCool for standing up to Tony Robbins in that moment. You spoke for a LOT of women when you did. — Shannon Coulter (@shannoncoulter) April 7, 2018

The life coach then implied that women have become a liability in the workplace because of the movement. “I was just with someone the other day, very famous man, very powerful man. He’s saying how stressed he is because he interviewed three people that day—one was a woman, two were men,” Robbins said. “The woman was better qualified, but she was very attractive, and he knew, ‘I can’t have her around, because it’s too big of a risk.’ And he hired somebody else. I’ve had a dozen men tell me this.”

Among the many gross notions that are embedded in Tony Robbins’ statements on #metoo is his disgust at sexual abuse survivors aspiring to “significance.” How dare these women imagine their lives are as important as the men who harassed them! — Emily Nussbaum (@emilynussbaum) April 7, 2018