Actor Derek Dixon spoke out Tuesday in his first television interview since filing a lawsuit against media mogul Tyler Perry , sharing allegations of sexual harassment and assault he says he endured from the billionaire.

Dixon, who filed a $260 million lawsuit against Perry in June, sat down with ABC News Live anchor Linsey Davis to discuss his allegedly complicated history with the media mogul, saying he did not "want to stay silent about it anymore" even though "it's a vulnerable thing to talk about."

"It's been hard," Dixon said. "There's a lot of shame around it. Just trying to think what you could have done better and having to deal with the judgment of how you could've ended it better without being in that situation."

Perry, who has produced 24 feature films, 20 stage plays, 17

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