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Esai Morales Comes Clean to His Fans

Esai MoralesFormer "NYPD Blue" star Esai Morales has written an open letter to his fans on his MySpace page in response to a lawsuit filed by his former live-in girlfriend, who claims he sexually assaulted her and gave her herpes:


To My Fans,

As you may have already heard, I have been put in a very frustrating situation by some hurtful accusations that were leveled against me in a recent lawsuit. But, because of the nature of the litigious society we live in, my very competent legal counsel is advising me not to comment at this time.

Yet, I need to assure you personally that the charges that have been leveled against me are absolutely false and without merit and I am prepared to vigorously defend myself and my reputation.

You know me. You've known me for nearly three decades. And you know in your hearts that these claims are baseless. This is not the way I live my life and I am incapable of committing these kinds of acts.

I am proud of my humanity, my activism and my respect for fellow human beings. I will continue to be optimistic and I will not let a personal attack deter me from the bigger picture.

I am grateful and humbled by your prayers, well wishes and expressions of trust and support at this time and look forward to the day when the truth will prevail.
Peace,

Esai Morales

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16. Haters? What the heck does that mean, Morales is the one who put that stupid comment on his blog about how "we know him." YOU personally know him, Shelly? I don't, why would I be expected to believe anything he says just because he is an actor? Get real, HE asked for criticism when he told us we should believe him just because he is an actor. He should have taken the advice of his lawyer and just kept quiet. Frankly, though, I couldn't care less about him, or his bimbo girlfriend. I can't imagine announcing to the world that I have herpes just to get even with someone, but that's Hollyweird for ya, trashy people rule.

Posted at 7:22PM on Jul 23rd 2007 by Gina

17. Esai, Esai, Esai, we love you herpes or no herpes.

Posted at 7:35PM on Jul 23rd 2007 by My Two Cents

18. how do his fans know whether or not he has HERPES????????????????????? or is a violent jerk behind closed doors????????????????? ESAI means KNUCKLEHEAD.

Posted at 7:52PM on Jul 23rd 2007 by anonymous

19. I CAN SAY WITHOUT QUESTION THAT ESAI DOESN'T HAVE HERPES, HE MAY HAVE GONORRHEA, CHLAMYDIA, AND CRABS BUT NO HERPES..............SINCE WE ALL KNOW HIM.................DUH

Posted at 7:57PM on Jul 23rd 2007 by ESAI'S DOC

20. .............................definately has herps,,,,,,,,,,seems like he was once gay, also??

Posted at 8:06PM on Jul 23rd 2007 by costaMesaboy

21. thank goodness someone speaks out and defends themselves -- if you are innocent there is no wrong in speaking out and shouting it out -- more folks should ......and not pay attention to your lawyer -- lawyers get confused with all of the liars, thiefs, and murderers that they represent who say nothing about their innocence because they are...... guilty -- you can't stomp on the truth -- it always rises back to the top !!

Keep the faith Mr. E.

Posted at 12:57AM on Jul 24th 2007 by johnny

22. Please spare us. Do you really think someone would come out and say she had herpes from some guy, so the whole world can see, if it wasn't true? You know he's a pig infecting anyone who would touch him without a care..He should be held accountable for his actions.. Maybe all these pigs including Paris would think before they openly infect people! BTW - he looks like my gardener.. maybe him and mario lopez can weed my Hollywood Hills home. It's getting a little full!

Posted at 9:07PM on Jul 23rd 2007 by Having herpes is not cool

23. YUUUUUKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKE!!! Waaaaay tooooo much damn information for me!

Posted at 9:37PM on Jul 23rd 2007 by Jacie

24. Looking these comments over, I can see that this is just about the most hateful site I have ever ever seen. Shame on you! You don't know all the facts. But like to make yourself feel important by making mean comments. This is a great guy and deserves more respect than some of you are giving him.

Posted at 11:12PM on Jul 23rd 2007 by Trudy

25. whenever i hear ex girlfriends go off with trash talk i believe the guy...sorry for your bad taste in women...it will all work out...what you need to do is look for the guy she was doing when she was with you...he is around and i am sure for a price he talks.......

Posted at 11:18PM on Jul 23rd 2007 by IDA

26. Hey Trudy, HE'S the one who says we should trust him because we "know him" and WE DON'T KNOW HIM! If he didn't want people judging him, he should have kept quiet like his mouthpiece advised him to do. Instead, he goes onto a lame MySpace and says we should believe him because we know him. WTF with YOUR hateful rant at US, Trudy, looks like people here don't like it assumed that because we see someone on a show once a week, we are too stupid to know the actor is just playing a part. Go peddle your holier than thou BS rants somewhere else, Trudy, and since we don't know you, guess we won't be taking your word about the character of an actor we don't know any better than we know YOU!

Posted at 11:39PM on Jul 23rd 2007 by Lilah

27. My boy no have the Herpes, he's a good boy, you know me, trust me "wink"
"wink" I wouldn't lie......................

Posted at 12:26AM on Jul 24th 2007 by MOM of ESAI

28. Trudy please come over now and have unprotected sex with me, I am safe trust me and aftewards I will .............................

Posted at 12:29AM on Jul 24th 2007 by ESAI

29. Yeah right Esai. Keep it in your pants and stay on the Valtrex and you wouldn't be having these problems.

Posted at 1:12AM on Jul 24th 2007 by txsub

30. Hey, first of all I DON'T KNOW YOU, really. To me you are a person who get's paid acting on TV. That's all. I think is in poor taste to talk about your activism and how much you care about human beings. Is that's really the case, congratulations, but I got news for you...You can be the most gentle soul alive and still have herpes. So what's your point?

Posted at 1:45AM on Jul 24th 2007 by COCO

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