SPEAKER, BEST-SELLING AUTHOR, TONY ROBBINS.
TONY ROBBINS.
KRISTEN DAHLGREN IS HERE WITH THAT STORY.LGREN IS HERE WITH
THAT STORY.
>> Reporter: TONY ROBBINS HAS
DEDICATED HIS LIFE TO TEACHING
OTHERS HOW TO IMPROVE THEIR LIVES THROUGH SEMINARS ANDR
LIVES THROUGH SEMINARS AND SELF-HELP BOOKS.
SELF-HELP BOOKS. ITS A MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR
BUSINESS.
BUSINESS.
BUT AFTER SHARING WHY HE THOUGHT THE HRT#METOO MOVEMENT IS HURTIN
WOMEN, FOLLOWERS WHO ARE SO
LOYAL, THEY WOULD WALK ACROSS
HOT COALS, IS TAKING SOME HEAT.
TONY ROBBINS INSPIRES LEGIONS OF
FOLLOWERS TO TRANSFORM THEIR
LIVES.
GIVING SPEECHES AT HIGH-ENERGY EVENTS TO TENS OF THOUSANDS.GY
EVENTS TO TENS OF THOUSANDS. THIS MORNING, THE SELF-HELP GURU
IS APOLOGIZING FOR HIS COMMENTS IN THIS VIDEO, TAKEN LAST MONTH
AT ONE OF HIS UNLEASH YOUR POWER
EVENTS.
EVENTS.
A WOMAN STANDING UP AND CHALLENGING HIM IN FRONT OF A
PACKED ARENA IN SAN JOSE,
CALIFORNIA, AFTER SHE FELT HE
WAS CRITICAL OF THE #METOO
MOVEMENT.
>> I DONT THINK YOU UNDERSTAND
THE #METOO MOVEMENT.
>> IM NOT GOING TO BE A VICTIM. IF YOU USE THE #METOO MOVEMENT.
IF YOU USE THE #METOO MOVEMENT TO GET SIGNIFICANCE AND
CERTAINTY BY ATTACKING AND
DESTROYING SOMEONE ELSE, YOU
DONT GROW YOURSELF.
ALL YOUVE DONE IS USE
SIGNIFICANCE TO MAKE YOURSELF --
I WAS TALKING TO A MAN, HE
INTERVIEWED THREE PEOPLE.
THE WOMAN WAS QUALIFIED AND SHE
WAS ATTRACTIVE, AND HE KNEW, I CANT HAVE HER AROUND, ITS TOOI
CANT HAVE HER AROUND, ITS TOO BIG A RISK.
IVE HAD A DOZEN MEN TELL ME
THIS.
THIS.
>> YOU HAVE A LEADER AND INFLUENTIAL MAN.ADER AND
INFLUENTIAL MAN.
AND YOU ARE DOING A DISSERVICE,
IN MY OPINION, TO THE #METOO MOVEMENT.NION, TO THE #METOO
MOVEMENT.
>> IM NOT GOING TO BE INAUTHENTIC AND SAY IM SORRY
ABOUT SOMETHING IM NOT SORRY
ABOUT.
ABOUT.
>> Reporter: TODAY, HE IS SORRY. IN A STATEMENT POSTED TO HISRRY.
IN A STATEMENT POSTED TO HIS SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS, ROBBINS
WRITES, IM SORRY FOR SUGGESTING
ANYTHING OTHER THAN MY PROFOUND
ADMIRATION FOR THE #METOO
MOVEMENT.
MOVEMENT.
ADDING, IT IS CLEAR I HAVE MUCH TO LEARN.T IS CLEAR I HAVE MUCH
TO LEARN.
THE WOMAN IN THE VIDEO FLEW FROM
NEW ORLEANS TO CALIFORNIA FOR
THE EVENT, PAYING $3,000 FOR A
TICKET TO THE FOUR-DAY SEMINAR. SHE WENT ON A WHIM, INTERESTING
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT ROBBINS
MESSAGE.
MESSAGE.
>> I WAS SO TERRIFIED WHEN I FIRST STARTED TO ADDRESS HIM.
IM IN FRONT OF ALL HIS FANS
THINKING, WHAT HAVE I DONE?
>> Reporter: SHE IS A SURVIVOR
OF SEXUAL ABUSE HERSELF AND HAS
BEEN AN ADVOCATE FOR OTHER
SEXUAL ABUSE VICTIMS.
SHE WAS DISBARRED IN 2015 FOR
OVERZEALOUS SOCIAL MEDIA
ACTIVISM FOR A CLIENT.
SHE DID NOT PLAN ON CONFRONTING
ROBINS.
ROBINS.
THE VIDEO SHOWS ROBBINS PUSHING HER BACKWARDS THROUGH THEUSHING
HER BACKWARDS THROUGH THE AUDITORIUM, AS PART OF AN
EXERCISE.
EXERCISE.
SHE WASNT SCARED BUT OTHERS CALLED IT INTIMIDATEING.ERS
CALLED IT INTIMIDATEING. THE CELL PHONE FOOTAGE GOING
VIRAL OVER THE WEEKEND, AFTER
THE WOMAN WHO FOUNDED THE #METOO
MOVEMENT TWEETED OUT THE CLIP,
TAKING ROBBINS TO TASK.
WE HAVE A HARD ENOUGH TIME
TRYING TO SHIFT THE NARRATIVE OF
WHAT THIS MOVEMENT IS.
AND HE STANDS IN FRONT OF HIS
FOLLOWERS AND MISRESPECTS THE SM
#METOO MOVEMENT.
#METOO MOVEMENT. ADDING HIS PEOPLE REACHED OUT TO
DO DAMAGE CONTROL AND TO GIVE
HER CONTEXT.
HER CONTEXT. IN HIS APOLOGY, ROBBINS SAID,
WHILE I DEDICATED MY LIFE TO
WORKING WITH VICTIMS OF ABUSE
ALL OVER THE WORLD, I NEED TO
GET CONNECTED TO THE BRAVE WOMEN
OF #METOO.
OF #METOO. IM COMMITTED TO BEING PART OF
THE SOLUTION.
THE SOLUTION.
>> IF HE CAN COME AROUND AND COME INTO THE LIGHT, THEN WHAT A
PLATFORM HE HAS.
WHAT AN INFLUENCE HE CAN BE.
HE CAN REALLY BECOME A POWERFUL
FORCE IN THIS MOVEMENT.
>> Reporter: WE REACHED OUT TO
ROBBENS FORINBINS FOR ADDITIONAL
AND HAVE NOT HEARD BACK.
>> THERE WAS SO MUCH TO UNPACK.
THE WORDS AND THE PHYSICAL