Katty Kay on Weinstein: Sexual Addiction Is Not an Excuse for Abusing Women

EXCERPT:

BRZEZINSKI: "Katty, we were talking earlier about -- I mean, we’re reading these statements that Harvey Weinstein is putting out about going to rehab, and then he’s going to be better in a year. He’s given a time line. He knows exactly how long it’s going to take to recover from his sickness. How many things are wrong with that statement? Where do we begin?" [crosstalk]
KAY: "The idea that you can somehow blame serial harassment and groping on a sickness that you have just doesn’t quite ring true to me. Maybe there is such a thing sex addiction -- I don’t know, I’m not a qualified psychologist, but I don’t think that that can be used as an excuse for harassing people and abusing them."
BRZEZINSKI: "No."
KAY: "Which is what he did. You can't say, well, I am -- I'm -- really if he wanted to, he could come out and say I’m addicted to abusing women."
BRZEZINSKI: "Right."
KAY: "I mean, that would perhaps be more accurate than I’m addicted to sex."
BRZEZINSKI: "Well --"
KAY: "And -- and the idea that well, I can pass this off as some kind of illness and then I’ll get better from it, that somehow exonerates me from taking responsibility from this thing because it was an illness."