UPDATE, Thursday, July 7, 2016, 8:02 AM ET: Ailes has responded by calling the allegations “false” and Carlson’s lawsuit “offensive.” You can read his full response here.

In her sexual harassment lawsuit filed in New Jersey state court Wednesday, Gretchen Carlson detailed years of alleged discrimination and retaliation at the hands of Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, which she claimed came as the result of her refusal to have a sexual relationship with Ailes.

Carlson, a longtime host with the conservative news network, accused Ailes of increasingly sidelining her at the network, treating her in a demeaning manner in the presence of others, and eventually demanding her Fox News contract not be renewed in June.

Here are some of the most explosive allegations detailed in Carlson’s lawsuit.

Ailes’ sexual advances were not subtle

When Carlson brought her concerns to a meeting with Ailes last September, the Fox News boss allegedly told her, “I think you and I should have had a sexual relationship a long time ago and then you’d be good and better and I’d be good and better.”

He also allegedly said “sometimes problems are easier to solve” that way.



Carlson on “Fox & Friends” with co-hosts Doocy (left) and Kilmeade (right).

Co-host Steve Doocy made her feel like ‘blond female prop’

Carlson, who co-hosted the network’s morning news show “Fox & Friends” for more than seven years, complained about co-host Steve Doocy’s behavior to her supervisor in 2009. After further alleged harassment and retaliation, Ailes fired her from the morning show in 2013 and reassigned her to an afternoon time slot, she alleged.

According to the complaint:

Doocy engaged in a pattern and practice of severe and pervasive sexual harassment of Carlson, including, but not limited to, mocking her during commercial breaks, shunning her off air, refusing to engage with her on air, belittling her contributions to the show, and generally attempting to put her in her place by refusing to accept and treat her as an intelligent and insightful female journalist rather than a blond female prop.