Filed in a Cook County, IL court, DeNicolo claims the “Eric in the Morning” host taunted her with the phrase “I need a backrub” – code for oral sex – through her 20-year career at WTMX and demanded personal favors, such as babysitting his children.
The suit, filed in May, accuses the Radio Hall of Famer of intentional infliction of emotional distress and claims DeNicolo suffered extreme humiliation, substantial distress, hair loss, migraines, anxiety, weight gain, sleep loss and nightmares.
DeNicolo says in the suit that she never reported the highly rated morning man’s behavior to station management, fearing she would “lose her job, be publicly shamed, and humiliated out of the radio industry or otherwise driven out of radio by a vindictive Eric Ferguson,” the Tribune reports, quoting from the lawsuit.
