The research was a collaboration between a number of universities, including the University of Limerick, the University of Ulster, the University of Edinburgh and the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre and Faculty of Medicine and Health.

Sopan Deb wrote in the New York Times that it was Chloe Melas, a Greek-American CNN reporter, who after 6 months of research broke the story- along with her colleague An Phung- that several women accuse Morgan Freeman of sexual harassment.