--- title: Chelsea Handler On Victims: 'It's Your Duty to Come Forward' description: Chelsea Handler talked Gretchen Carlson and Megyn Kelly's sexual harassment case and said something surprisingly similar to Donald Trump canonical: https://time.com/4437767/chelsea-handler-donald-trump-harassment/ author: Megan Lasher article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-03T21:41:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:03:04.444Z og:title: Chelsea Handler On Harassment Victims: 'It's Your Duty to Come Forward' og:description: She weighs in on the sexual assault allegations against Roger Ailes og:url: https://time.com/4437767/chelsea-handler-donald-trump-harassment/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt935b32737716e9fb/6988a106bc6cfc243c3de1ca/chelsea-handler-donald-trump-harassment.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2437 og:image:height: 1371 og:image:alt: Celebrities Visit SiriusXM Studios - January 15, 2016 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Chelsea Handler On Harassment Victims: 'It's Your Duty to Come Forward' twitter:description: She weighs in on the sexual assault allegations against Roger Ailes twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt935b32737716e9fb/6988a106bc6cfc243c3de1ca/chelsea-handler-donald-trump-harassment.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Chelsea Handler On Harassment Victims: 'It's Your Duty to Come Forward' > Sponsored content. 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Chelsea Handler visits at SiriusXM Studios on January 15, 2016 in New York City. Robin Marchant—Getty Images by [Megan Lasher](https://time.com/author/megan-lasher/) ## Megan Lasher Aug 3, 2016 9:41 PM UTC Earlier this week, Donald Trump and [his son Eric](http://motto.time.com/4397182/eric-trump-ivanka-vp/) made [some suggestions](http://motto.time.com/4434973/megyn-kelly-eric-trump-ivanka-harassment/) about how Ivanka Trump would respond to sexual harassment in the workplace. In a new interview with TheWrap, late night host Chelsea Handler chimed in with the idea that women who don’t come forward are anything less than courageous. When asked about [Gretchen Carlson’s sexual harassment lawsuit](http://time.com/4394896/gretchen-carlson-roger-ailes-fox-news-sexual-harassment-lawsuit/) against former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, Handler told [TheWrap](http://www.thewrap.com/chelsea-handler-on-gretchen-carlsons-lawsuit-did-it-take-courage-i-dont-think-so-exclusive/), “Did it take courage? I don’t think so. I think that it’s your duty to come forward when somebody treats you like that.” “Especially at the level that they’re at, I think it’s your responsibility,” Handler continued. “They did the right thing and I would expect nothing less. If you’re sticking up for other women that made claims that you know to be true, then yes, it is absolutely your responsibility to confirm that.” But a video collection [showcasing the microagressions Carlson faced on a daily basis](http://motto.time.com/4396489/gretchen-carlson-fox-harassment/), paired with the [sub-par record of women winning assault cases](https://www.rainn.org/news/97-every-100-rapists-receive-no-punishment-rainn-analysis-shows), indicates that it wasn’t such an easy decision for Carlson. [_Follow Motto on Facebook._](https://www.facebook.com/mottoworkplaylive/) Ivanka Trump on Tuesday spoke of the responsibility and culpability being on the assaulters, not the victims. “I think harassment in general, regardless, sexual or otherwise, is totally inexcusable and if it transpires it needs to be reported and it needs to be dealt with on a company level,” [Ivanka said on “On the Record.”](http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/02/politics/ivanka-trump-sexual-harassment/) \[h/t [TheWrap](http://www.thewrap.com/chelsea-handler-on-gretchen-carlsons-lawsuit-did-it-take-courage-i-dont-think-so-exclusive/)\]. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4437767/chelsea-handler-donald-trump-harassment/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4437767/chelsea-handler-donald-trump-harassment/"},"headline":"Chelsea Handler On Harassment Victims: 'It's Your Duty to Come Forward'","datePublished":"2016-08-03T21:41:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:03:04.444Z","description":"She weighs in on the sexual assault allegations against Roger Ailes","url":"https://time.com/4437767/chelsea-handler-donald-trump-harassment/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt935b32737716e9fb/6988a106bc6cfc243c3de1ca/chelsea-handler-donald-trump-harassment.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan Lasher","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-lasher/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt935b32737716e9fb/6988a106bc6cfc243c3de1ca/chelsea-handler-donald-trump-harassment.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Celebrities Visit SiriusXM Studios - January 15, 2016","caption":"Chelsea Handler visits at SiriusXM Studios on January 15, 2016 in New York City.","creditText":"Robin Marchant—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4437767/chelsea-handler-donald-trump-harassment/","name":"Chelsea Handler On Harassment Victims: 'It's Your Duty to Come Forward'"}}]}] ```