A journalist claims rocker Courtney Love as soon as groped him with out consent.

Frank Elaridi — who works largely for ABC applications and digital platforms — stated on Thursday’s episode of his “Fairly Frankly” podcast that the incident occurred “like six years in the past” at Coachella when he was overlaying the music pageant for “Nightline.”

“I believe I used to be like 24 or one thing on the time — naive,” he defined. “They ship me to Coachella to go do an interview along with her. I’m at her afterparty, interviewing her in a facet room, after which she’s like, ‘Come hang around with us!’”

Elaridi stated he obliged and that the 2 took “a photograph collectively.”

“And the second [the] picture’s executed, she grabs my crotch, like, actually onerous. Like, grabs it like that,” he claimed, gesturing along with his arms.

“I used to be caught off guard. There’s actually a photograph ’trigger someone throughout the room snapped it [and] despatched it to me.”

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Within the image, Love will be seen grabbing Elaridi’s crotch seemingly forcefully along with her proper hand. She appeared carefree and aloof, whereas his facial features was one in all shock.

“Her hand could be very clearly — like, there’s a photograph of Courtney Love along with her hand squeezing my balls mainly,” he stated.

Elaridi’s podcast visitor, musician Nahko Bear — who has been accused of sexual abuse however denies the allegations — requested, “So that you’re gonna cancel her?”

Elaridi stated the thought to “go after her” “10 years later” would “by no means cross [his] thoughts.”

“She’s a rock star in my head,” he defined. “To not justify [her behavior] or say it’s OK, however in my head, that will by no means cross my thoughts to do this.”

Nonetheless, he puzzled whether or not the dialog was nonetheless price having for the mere proven fact that “she’s a lady” and he’s “a person.”

He wrote a prolonged caption alongside the clip from the podcast on Instagram, noting that he didn’t wish to “come off as a sufferer.”

Reps for Love, 58, didn’t instantly reply to Web page Six’s request for remark.

Elaridi recalled witnessing an allegedly comparable dynamic when he was a backstage correspondent at “Dancing With the Stars” a number of years in the past.

With out naming names — as a result of he’s “not making an attempt to get anyone canceled” — he claimed there was “an older girl on the present” who could be “flirting, jokingly” throughout joint interviews with “her dance accomplice” however would “be caressing his butt the entire time.”

Elaridi claimed the unidentified man would “look” at him with large eyes and and an uncomfortable “smirk.”

“I can’t assist however surprise why some folks get chosen and others don’t,” he stated.