Derrius Guice, former LSU running back
A Legislative committee heard testimony from a woman who accused former LSU running back Derrius Guice of sexual harassment, and said head coach Ed Orgeron asked her to forgive the running back.
74-year-old Gloria Scott says in December of 2017 she was working as a Superdome security guard when she was accosted by Guice and a group of his friends. She accused Guice of using “vile and humiliating” explicit language about her age and what he wanted to do to her, made suggestive hand motions, and refused to leave when asked. Afterward, she said Guice and his friends took a nearby elevator and left.
Scott said after reporting the incident to LSU she received a call from coach Ed Orgeron who had Derrius Guice with him, asking if Guice could apologize and asking her to forgive Guice.
“They said well he was just playing, but I said you don’t play with nobody like that. No one. I said the way he came up to me and did it so easily I’m probably not the first person he has harassed like that,” said Scott who added that coach Orgeron attempted to explain Guice’s behavior by alluding to his troubled upbringing.
LSU Athletics spokesperson Cody Worsham told the Advocate that “Coach Orgeron never had any direct communication with the alleged victim.”
Scott then said she requested that Guice be suspended from the upcoming Citrus Bowl game as a punishment. She said Orgeron said he would get back to her on that, but never called her back.
Scott said she then spoke to Athletic Administrators Miriam Segar and Verge Ausberry and told them Guice sitting out the bowl game would send a message.
“I figured that would be the punishment that he needed and they both told me that would never happen, they would never do that. At all. And I said why not? And they said we just don’t do things like that,” said Scott. She said when she later followed up with the school she was told Guice’s friends disputed her account, and that also there was no record of her complaint being filed.
Scott said when she reported the incident to her superiors at the Superdome was reassigned from her post for the next two football games. She was told the football players may have a “reaction” towards her if they found out she had made that accusation.
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