sa seven young girls in michigan. he pled guilty to child pornography after investigators found 37,000 images in his home. the former doctor will likely spend the rest of his life in prison. usa gymnastics said that during the negotiations, gloria allred was maroney s attorney. those negotiations, by law, chris, are confidential. we reached out to gloria allred and she did not give us a comment. we also reached out to michigan state university. and they didn t have a comment either. it s impossible to, i think, overstate the importance of gymnastics to the olympic movement. it is the marquise sport. that and figure skating in their respective olympics. what does the usoc have to do with all of this? is there any culpability on their part? do they have oversight of usa gymna gymnast gymnastics? they do. but in their public statements condemned larry nassar and
agreement, maroney went public with her story in october. writing, in part, i had a dream to go to the olympics and the things that i endured to get there were unnecessary and disgusting. at the time, usa at the time they publicly commended maroney and others accusers for their courage. predators can be held accountable for their actions. they would try to look good by acting like they wanted her to come forward. that statement is the height of hypocrisy and it s dispicable. two other members of the team say nassar abused them, too. raisman recently speaking out on today. it is so disturbing to me what he did to me and so many other people. reporter: critical of usa gymnastics. i was basically told to keep it quiet and that they were handling it. they didn t let me help. reporter: nassar is in jail on sex abuse charges against
gymnasts. in december, maroney went to usa gymnastics, according to the complaint, to get financial help for psychological treatment. the wall street journal reports the organization agreed to a $1.25 million settlement. her lawyer says it was in exchange for signing a nondisclosure greept. you don t help somebody by putting a gag on them and saying, oh, yeah, we know you were molested but you can never talk about it. reporter: in a statement, usa j gymnastics says the concept of confidentiality was initiated by maroney s attorney, not usa gymnastics. maroney s current attorney says that agreement was written by usa gymnastics lawyers and it was designed to do one thing, which is keep their secret from the public. maroney now wants the previous usa gymnastics settlement overturned as unlawful and is suing the organization, nassar and his former employer michigan state university. despite the nondisclosure
abused by larry nasser. saying the organization that basically got her to the podium had her sign a deal, exchanging money for her silence. michaela maroney anchored the fierce five team in 2012 with incredible performances on the vault. unbelievable! reporter: earning gold and silver at the london olympics. but a new lawsuit says her career was cut short. the young athlete now suffering severe depression after years of alleged sexual abuse by team doctor larry nasser. according to the suit, maroney believes nasser took thousands of photographs of her, continuously obsessively and compulsively. including while he was abusing her. maroney believes the photos were shared by nasser with other pedophiles. in september of last year, reports first surfaced of nasser s crimes against young
it s so disgusting and look at michaela maroney. she says i had a dream to go to the olympics and the things that i had to endure to get there were unnecessary and disgusting. clearly we are seeing that this is affecting women of all kinds of cultures, all kinds of environments, all kinds of industries. i don t want to distract away completely from hollywood being somewhat responsible for the culture that has developed. hollywood has a very big impact on american culture, they know that they do. over the course of the past 30 years they have had a rape culture problem that they have refused to acknowledge. they have lectured the rest of the country about misogyny, sexual harassment, sexual assault, they really should have been cleaning up their own neighborhood. in terms of how we prevent this from happening across the board in every industry, not just in hollywood, there has to be a change of how women are portrayed in pop culture coming directly from hollywood. when you look around