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Life has seemingly been hard for disgraced former CBC host Jian Ghomeshi since he was publicly accused of abusing at least 23 women and fired from his job.The former Q host was acquitted of four counts of sexual assault and one count of overcome resistance by choking in the spring of 2016. But there were many allegations—ranging from violent sexual assault to workplace bullying—for which Ghomeshi never stood trial nor commented on publicly. Though you wouldn’t necessarily know that from reading Ghomeshi’s 3,400-word cover (read: sob) story for the New York Review of Books.The piece, published Friday, part of an issue called The Fall of Men, hits readers over the head with how much Ghomeshi has struggled since his fall from grace.Here are some things we are supposed to feel sad about:
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- Ghomeshi no longer has a platform to speak to hundreds of thousands of listeners on a daily basis
- His infamy makes it harder for him to pick up women and make friends
- Money and “influence” made it easier for Ghomeshi to be a dick, blame them
- His crisis management team gave him bad advice
- Reporters are mean
- Lawyers are expensive
- No one liked his dumb YouTube project