Katherine Ryan has hit back at critics after previously admitting that she once pleasured her boss so she could go home early.
The comedian, 41, who is now expecting her fourth child with her husband Bobby Kootstra, revealed back in March that she was facing melanoma for the second time.
"If you know about melanoma, you'll know it is a deadly form of skin cancer. It does spread quickly, and I just felt like this mole wasn't right," the Canadian said on her Telling Everybody Everything podcast.
Ryan, a regular on Live at the Apollo and 8 Out of 10 Cats, said the doctor told her that the cancer had been caught 'very early, so I highly doubt that it has spread'.
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More recently, however, the TV star has addressed an old 2022 interview she did with Louis Theroux for the BBC.
During the sit-down chat, she revealed that she once said to her employer many years ago: "If I suck you d**k, can I leave early? Something like that."
Louis replied: "You really said that?", to which Katherine added: "Yeah. But I liked him. That's key. He wasn't just some guy."
She said: "He said yes, you can. Of course you can. So then I sucked his d**k and I left early."
The former office employee said 'several' of the girls who worked there had the 'same arrangement'.
"I have never sucked the d**k of anyone I didn't like... at the time," Ryan added.
Taking to Instagram earlier this week, the stand-up felt the need to address the backlash from the controversial clip.
"Based on the reaction to this clip over the last two years, I think people mostly seem confused that I’m neither proud, nor am I shameful of the choices I made in my 'youth', as a young adult, when my frontal lobe was still developing," she wrote.
"Culture moves so fast, and those of us from what I call ‘the girl band generation’ navigated being objectified and participating in objectifying ourselves. It’s a bit different now."
Her fans were quick to come to her support, as one person said: "The power imbalance was key.
"He was in the wrong not her.
"I feel sorry for her, but also recognise she felt empowered to do it."
Others also pointed out how there was 'consent' given at the time.
Topics: Celebrity, Louis Theroux, TV, Sex and Relationships
Anish Vij