Tony Award-winning Broadway actress Alice Ripley has denied grooming young fans with mental health issues - but says she's sorry for befriending the women then ghosting them. Four women have accused Tony Award-winning Broadway actress Alice Ripley of 'manipulating' them and running a cult-like base of young fans. The women also made accusations of unsolicited advances. Ripley vehemently denies 'vile' accusations of grooming, saying the term has made her feel like a sex attacker, and that she inflicted no such abuse on her fans. 'It is a misinterpretation of my actions to say I manipulated anyone, and more shockingly, that...