Actress Cherry Pie Picache claims her Noah co-star Baron Geisler groped her on the set of the ABS-CBN teleserye, PEP.ph reported yesterday. Geisler, supposedly drunk at the time, allegedly felt up her breasts during the show's taping about a week ago. The actress supposedly complained to the production team, which then killed off Geisler's character.
Picache and her manager Ed Instrella have filed a complaint before the Philippine Artists Managers Inc. and ABS-CBN "with the hope that (the) incident will not happen again." Instrella told PEP.ph that his talent does not want to make a big deal out of the issue "so as not to affect her son."
Geisler's manager Arnold Vegafria told PEP.ph that he has yet to receive a copy of Picache's complaint, and will talk to ABS-CBN about the issue.
In May 2009, actress Yasmien Kurdi charged Geisler with acts of lasciviousness and unjust vexation after he allegedly groped her and masturbated in front of her on the set of Suspetsa. The cases are still in the arraignment stage, according to PEP.ph.