Who is Morgan Spurlock's Wife, Sara Bernstein? 'Super Size Me' Director Admits Sexual Misconduct, Cheating on Spouse

Morgan Spurlock admits sexual misconduct
Morgan Spurlock speaks on stage during an In Conversation on day six of the 14th annual Dubai International Film Festival held at the Madinat Jumeriah Complex, Dubai, December 11, 2017. Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty

Super Size Me documentarian Morgan Spurlock has come forward to declare that he is guilty of sexual misconduct.

"I am part of the problem," Spurlock, 47, wrote in a TwitLonger post, referring to the wave of sexual misconduct allegations that have emerged in the worlds of entertainment and politics since several women accused movie producer Harvey Weinstein of charges including rape and harassment in October.

Spurlock revealed that in college, he was accused of rape by a woman who he thought he was having consensual sex with. "In my mind, we'd been drinking all night and went back to my room. We began fooling around, she pushed me off, then we laid in the bed and talked and laughed some more, and then began fooling around again. We took off our clothes. She said she didn't want to have sex, so we laid together, and talked, and kissed, and laughed, and then we started having sex," he wrote.

"'Light Bright,' she said. 'What?' 'Light bright. That kids toy, that's all I can see and think about,' she said…and then she started to cry. I didn't know what to do. We stopped having sex and I rolled beside her. I tried to comfort her. To make her feel better. I thought I was doing OK, I believed she was feeling better. She believed she was raped."

The documentary maker also admitted to calling a female assistant "hot pants" and "sex pants" and being unfaithful to "every wife and girlfriend I have ever had."

Spurlock, who also hosts the CNN series Morgan Spurlock Inside Man and directed the 2013 documentary One Direction: This Is Us, about the British boy band One Direction, has been married twice.

In April 2016, he married his girlfriend of eight years Sara Bernstein, who is senior vice president of HBO's documentary arm. She has won four Emmy awards, including the best documentary prize in 2016 for producing the Scientology movie Going Clear.

#tbt to last Sat when this happened. #shotgunwedding @sarabdocs #ManhattanMeetsDeliverance Photo: @crpweddings pic.twitter.com/kpUQxKmbiX

— Morgan Spurlock (@MorganSpurlock) May 5, 2016

The couple had their first child, Kallen Marcus Spurlock, in May 2016.

Prior to his marriage to Bernstein, between 2006 and 2011, Spurlock was married to natural food chef Alex Jamieson, with whom he has an 11-year-old son, Laken.

In his TwitLonger post, Spurlock revealed that he was sexually abused as a child and until now has only ever told his first wife, Jamieson.

Following their divorce, Jamieson wrote a blog about coping with the end of her marriage and starting over. "Going through a divorce over the last few years brought countless opportunities to see how my mind is set on 'self-sabotage mode' to undermine the best intentions for my life and health. 'You're a failure,' or 'I'm doing it wrong again' were favorite put-downs of my mechanical-mind-machine," she wrote.

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