‘If you actually participate in a rumor, you make it bigger,’ C.K.

“If you actually participate in a rumor, you make it bigger and you make it real.”

“So it’s not real?”

“No,” he responded.

“They’re rumors, that’s all that is.”

Last month Notaro a fellow comedian whose Amazon seriesOne Mississippilists C.K.

as an executive producer toldThe Daily Beastthat she and C.K.

had a falling out and had not spoken in a year and a half.

It’s serious to be harassed.

It’s serious, it’s serious, it’s serious."

(The second season ofOne Mississippialsoexplores themes of sexual abuseand its various forms.)

In theTimesinterview, C.K.

questioned why Notaro made her remarks about him.

whose spoiled teenage daughter is wooed by a much older filmmaker rumored to be a pedophile.

“The uncomfortable truth is, you never really know.

You don’t know anybody.