Terry Richardson Addresses Abuse Claims.

• Terry Richardson‘s finally come forward to address the claims of sexual abuse made against him most recently by 24-year-old Charlotte Waters, who claims she was just 19 when the raunchy photographer took advantage of her during a shoot. Richardson penned a letter to the New York Post, in which he decries these accusations for the first time, saying that he never thought to “dignfy” past claims with any type of response. “When these allegations resurfaced over the past few months, they seemed especially vicious and distorted, moving outside the realm of critical dialogue and becoming nothing more than an emotionally-charged witch hunt,” he wrote. “Enabled and protected by the freewheeling and often times anonymous nature of the Internet, people have become comfortable concocting hate-filled and libelous tales about my professional and personal lives. In writing this, I make a humble attempt at correcting these rumors, because I have come to realize that absent my voice in the conversation, all that remain are the lies.” He adds that he never put anyone in a compromising situation, and that reports saying otherwise are completely false. “When these allegations resurfaced over the past few months, they seemed especially vicious and distorted, moving outside the realm of critical dialogue and becoming nothing more than an emotionally-charged witch hunt. Enabled and protected by the freewheeling and often times anonymous nature of the Internet, people have become comfortable concocting hate-filled and libelous tales about my professional and personal lives. In writing this, I make a humble attempt at correcting these rumors, because I have come to realize that absent my voice in the conversation, all that remain are the lies.” Do you believe Richardson? (NYPost)