Has lens-perv Terry Richardson just embarked on a voyage of full-on damage control? After all the accusations of sexual harassment from mostly unnamed (and a few brave named) models, stylists and other industry bods who’d witnessed or been party to his nefarious ways, Tel’ has utilized his interview in the latest issue of The Journal, to protest that, ‘look I LOVE shooting men too, honest! In fact, contact me, I wanna snap your nekkid asses!’ Thus reads his full comment:

“I love shooting guys. Some of my favorite pictures over the years have been the things I’ve done with guys. In a commercial context too, there’s no hair or makeup with guys, which is great. I love shooting nudes of guys, but it’s harder to get guys to do full nudes, I don’t know why, but they don’t want to show their junk. I love doing guys. If there are any guys out there that want to get naked you can email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).”

Whatevs. It does seem Richardson has entered furious backpedalling mode. Not only did he quickly withdraw shady naked lady model pictures from his Terry’s Diary blog now these statements just kinda smack of ‘me thinks he doth protest too much.’ When quizzed outright if he was a sex addict he is either in denial or clearly has no self-awareness/moral compass:

“Yeah, like David Duchovny, just kidding ... No, I don’t identify myself that way. Sex is intense. Sex, food, drugs, shopping, alcohol, the gym, plastic surgery, collecting art, there are all of these things that people get a rush from or become obsessed with. Sex then was never an addiction but a kind of obsession, and it was fun. It was all during the day and there were people everywhere and the energy was incredible. To me, it was like a happening.”

OK, so not addicted then, just ‘obsessed’...

Posted on April 08, 2010 at 4:15:38 by The Real Runway