Robert Allen

Detroit Free Press

A Southfield attorney and conservative pundit said Sean Hannity argued with her about her pants size in New York, and later, in Detroit, yelled at her after she declined invitations to his hotel.

"It was just incredibly creepy and inappropriate," Debbie Schlussel said Monday of her encounters with the conservative Fox News host more than 10 years ago. "That's how he is."

She revealed the Detroit claims Friday on the Tulsa, Okla.-based Pat Campbell radio show, which she said was an impromptu response during a weekly appearance. Former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly was fired last week after multiple allegations of sexual harassment, and Campbell asked Schlussel whether she'd been made to feel uncomfortable or encountered sexual advances in the times she'd appeared on the cable news channel.

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"Well, only by Sean Hannity, not by Bill O'Reilly," she replied. She clarified to the Free Press that she was responding to the "uncomfortable" part of the question, that it's "up to God" to decide whether there was a sexual advance.

She said that Hannity was in metro Detroit for a show, and that he'd asked her to go back to his hotel during a book signing beforehand and again after the show was finished. Both times, she declined, she said.

"And then after that, I wasn't booked on his show again. And he called me and yelled at me and ... it was made clear to me that I didn't go back to his hotel," she said on the radio show. "And I got a very weird feeling about the whole thing, and I kind of knew I wouldn't be back on his show."

Hannity, 55, didn't immediately respond to a Free Press request for comment. In a statement he sent to Deadline Detroit, Hannity said Schlussel's comments are "100% false and a complete fabrication," and that she's a "serial harasser."

Schlussel, 48, said Monday that she hasn't had contact with Hannity in years, and that previous contacts were "always at his behest," and that if he sues her, she'll file a counter-suit. She said that before the metro Detroit incident, she'd had an uncomfortable encounter with Hannity when she was in New York for his radio show.

"He got mad at me that I was briefly a redhead," Schlussel said. "He was arguing with me about my pants size, ... I said they were size 2, and he said, no, they were a 4."

Since Friday, she said she has received a number of threats from "a lot of crazy fans."

Schlussel is a blogger, a regular guest on several radio shows and a film critic on the "Larry the Cable Guy" show on Sirius XM.

Schlussel said that before the Detroit incident, Hannity had told her he wanted her to be a guest on his show regularly, about twice per month. But she had perhaps one more appearance after the incident, and she was later told she was "blackballed" by him and a producer, she said.

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