{"id":290818,"date":"2025-10-10T02:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T02:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/290818\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T02:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T02:32:10","slug":"matlocks-leah-lewis-breaks-silence-amid-david-del-rios-firing-over-sexual-assault-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/290818\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Matlock&#8217;s Leah Lewis Breaks Silence Amid David Del R\u00edo&#8217;s Firing Over Sexual Assault Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/leah-lewis\/\" id=\"auto-tag_leah-lewis\" data-tag=\"leah-lewis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leah Lewis<\/a> is breaking her silence after her <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/matlock\/\" id=\"auto-tag_matlock\" data-tag=\"matlock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matlock<\/a> co-star David del R\u00edo was <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/10\/david-del-rio-fired-matlock-sexual-assault-billy-martinez-1236574763\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fired from the CBS legal drama amid sexual assault allegations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn a post on Instagram Stories, Lewis shared a photo with her mom and thanked the people for the support she has been receiving during this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cMom is here, we\u2019re moving forward in love and strength. I\u2019m in good hands,\u201d she posted. \u201cThank you to everybody for any kind of support and care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tShe continued, \u201cTruly, we\u2019re moving forward in strength. Key word, strength. Please, let that be the takeaway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLewis plays Sarah Franklin in the primetime drama, which stars Kathy Bates. Sarah is a first-year associate at Jacobson Moore, where the series takes place.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/leah-lewis-instagram-matlock.jpg\" alt=\"Leah Lewis shares post on Instagram\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"1024\" width=\"591\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tLeah Lewis shares post on Instagram<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tInstagram @leahmlewis<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEarlier today, Deadline reported that after an investigation, Del R\u00edo was fired from\u00a0Matlock\u00a0following an incident on September 26 that involved Lewis. Following the internal investigation, Del R\u00edo was fired and escorted off the lot, the same day that the alleged assault was reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMatlock\u00a0Season 2 is set to premiere on October 12, with the first half of the season already wrapped in filming. The show will be on a pre-planned hiatus and resume production after Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDel R\u00edo played Billy Mart\u00ednez, another first-year associate at the law firm, like Lewis\u2019 Sarah. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMatlock also stars Skye P. Marshall as Olympia Lawrence and Jason Ritter as Julian Markston. The series also features recurring characters played by Eme Ikwuakor, Aaron Harris, Sam Anderson and Beau Bridges, among others. Justina Machado is <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/08\/justina-machado-matlock-season-2-seniors-ex-wife-1236476770\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">set to join the cast<\/a> in a recurring role for Season 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leah Lewis is breaking her silence after her Matlock co-star David del R\u00edo was fired from the CBS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":290819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15328,148788,171,149160,97882,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-290818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-cbs","9":"tag-david-del-rio","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-leah-lewis","12":"tag-matlock","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115347531191520076","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}