It was a rare event in the midst of the #MeToo moment. Over the course of two weeks, an apology was offered and accepted, much of it in public, as thousands of people looked on.
Megan Ganz, a former writer for the sitcom “Community,” had asked the showrunner Dan Harmon, who was her boss, to apologize for treating her cruelly at work after she rejected his romantic advances. In a new interview, Ms. Ganz explains what it was about his apology that led her to forgive him.
She said that there were parts of their history that only he could confirm her perception of, and that she had doubted herself until he gave her a sense of relief.
“The irony is, Dan was the only person who could wipe those doubts from my head,” she said. “That’s why I was able to accept his apology. Because I felt vindicated, to others but more importantly to myself.”