“I had to step back,” Gibson recalled to NBC News. ”My hand just clutched my chest, because I was, like, I’ve, I’ve never been approached this way by anybody.”
In the suit, she says that final meeting marked the last time she saw Derulo. And a few months later in September, Atlantic dropped her. Gibson added in the suit that no one has ever reached out to address her “concerns over Derulo’s sexually, emotionally and physically inappropriate behavior towards her.”
Gibson is accusing Derulo, his Future History imprint and Atlantic Records of sexual harassment, retaliation, breach of contract, a failure to remedy workplace harassment and violation of California’s civil rights act, the lawsuit says. As part of the suit, she is seeking an unspecified amount of unpaid wages, loss of earnings, deferred compensation and other employment benefits and damages for emotional distress.
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