NYC weatherman Erick Adame fired after webcam nudes sent to boss

Posted by Sebrina Pilcher on Monday, May 6, 2024

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An Emmy-nominated weatherman for Spectrum News NY1 claims he was fired after someone on an adult webcam site took nude photos of him and sent them to his boss, according to a new lawsuit.

Former NY1 meteorologist Erick Adame, in a statement on Instagram posted shortly after he filed the court papers Monday, announced his termination and revealed that he was getting professional help over what he described as his “compulsive behavior.”

“Despite being a public figure and being on television in the biggest market in the country in front of millions of people five days a week for more than a decade and a half, I secretly appeared on an adult webcam website,” Adame confessed in the post.

“It was absurd of me to think I could keep this private,” he wrote. “Nevertheless, my employer found out and I was suspended and then terminated.”

His legal petition in his Manhattan Supreme Court says a man took naked photos of him without his permission on the video chat website, identified as Unit 4 Media LTD.

The person then sent the pictures to his mother and NY1 “with intent of harassing, annoying, or alarming [Adame] and tortiously interfering with [Adame’s] employment relationship,” the court documents said.

Adame is seeking a court order to force the site to reveal the identity of the person — whose usernames include Sonal Prehonn, Tommysize29, Funtimes99, and Landonboy227 — noting he intends to sue them but needs their real identity to do so.

In his Instagram statement, Adame apologized to his employer, his co-workers, his audience and friends and family “for any embarrassment or humiliation I have caused you.”

“I had the job of my dreams and I lost it due to my own lapse in judgment,” he wrote.

He assured everyone he’s “getting the professional help I need so I can make appropriate decisions that don’t affect those I care deeply about, as well as my career, as I move forward in my life.”

Adame added that he doesn’t apologize for being gay or sex-positive and pleaded with potential future employers to give him a second chance rather than defining him on the “salacious video” that’s only a couple of minutes long.

“I acted out my compulsive behaviors, while at home, by performing on camera for other men,” Adame wrote, adding the videos were “100% consensual” on both sides and that he wasn’t paid for them.

He said he’s learned a lesson and assured future employers he “will be an exemplary employee and the most informed and enthusiastic meteorologist you have ever seen.”

Unit 4 Media’s lawyer Lawrence Walters told The Post: “Our client’s policy is to comply with lawfully issued subpoenas and to provide relevant user data when legally required.”

Walters noted: “Capturing and disseminating user content without consent violates our client’s Terms of Service and forum Rules which may result in a suspension or banning of the offending accounts.”

A spokesperson for NY1’s parent company, Charter Communications, declined to comment.

A judge will rule on Adame’s petition at a later date.

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