Maria Menounos: Doctor Sexually Abused Me

Maria Menounos, co-host of Extra, told Howard Stern that two of her doctors sexually abused her. Appearing on the shock jock’s satellite radio show, Menounos claimed that a doctor groped her genitals when she came in to have a sore throat examined.

Maria Menounos

Menounos said she decided not to press charges, so that the trauma from the incident wouldn’t be prolonged.

In another incident, Menounos told Stern that a gynecologist fingered her belly-button piercing in the middle of an examination.

She now claims that both incidents have contributed to a phobia of doctors and her boyfriend accompanies her to medical exams.