Then, to prove Eggert was over 18 at the time of their encounter, showed a "Charles in Charge" script dated May 18, 1990. In the clip Eggert says she willingly had sex with him because she was dating someone else and was "embarrassed that was a virgin."īaio then held up a print out of Eggert's IMDB page, which showed Eggert's birthday as January 13, 1972. He also played a clip of a 2013 interview Eggert did with Nik Richie of, in which she said she had sex with Baio as a 17-year-old after "Charles in Charge" had ended. If you have a real claim, you go to the real people, not social media, where people like me get beat up," Baio said. They chose to go to social media with these claims. Just hours after Eggert’s accusations, Baio responded in a 16-minute video posted to Facebook.īaio also showed two letters sent to Eggert and former “Charles in Charge” castmate Alexander Polinsky, in which Baio's legal team said on his behalf if the pair had legitimate claims that they should go to the police. Scott Baio arrives at Nickelodeon's 2012 TeenNick HALO Awards at The Hollywood Palladium. Baio played Charles, a college student who became a caretaker after moving into an off-campus house, and Eggert played Jamie, one of the children Charles looked after. Creep,” Eggert wrote.Įggert has since deleted replies to other Twitter users claiming the alleged molestation took place from the time she was 14 years old until she was 17.Įggert and Baio both starred in “Charles in Charge,” which ran from 1984 to 1990. “Ask what happened in his garage at his house when I was a minor. Related: Casey Affleck to skip Oscars, won’t present best actress award "We were at his house, in his car, in his garage and he reached over and penetrated me with his finger, and that’s when sexual touching and abuse started after that," she said. But for some reason she will not let this one go away," Baio said.Įggert said Tuesday that the first incident took place when she was 14. "I kept my mouth shut because usually when false claims in the past have been made against me they just go away. In a Facebook live posted over the weekend, Baio said Eggert first made claims against him in 20 when she was promoting three reality shows, adding he opted not to respond at the time. Nicole Eggert, on national television today, acknowledged that she had no answer to the fact that her core claim of having underage sex was proven to be untrue in a 2013 radio interview, not just in her own words, but actually in her own voice.” She was between the ages of 14 to 17 at the time of the alleged assaults.In a statement to NBC News, a representative for Baio said, "These false claims are part of a regular pattern of making outrageous and untrue statements. "But it has not been enough to stop her, if anything it made her angrier, and she has added to her campaign my wife."Įggert has accused Baio of sexually assaulting her while she was working as a teen actress on his show "Charles in Charge" in the 1980s. "For months we have proven her story to be 100 percent false by showing one inconsistency after another," Baio said. He and his wife said Eggert has been tormenting them with tweets and texts messages.īaio attacked Eggert for allegedly harassing his wife and her philanthropic efforts. WOODLAND HILLS (KABC) - Actor Scott Baio addressed accusations of sexual assault by his former "Charles in Charge" co-star Nicole Eggert Thursday, claiming her accusations are false and saying he has filed a police report accusing her of harassment.īaio said he took five lie detector tests and passed all of them to prove his innocence regarding Eggert's claims, with the questions asked related to if he sexually assaulted Eggert.
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