Comedian Louis C.K. released a statement Friday admitting that accusations he was involved in sexual misconduct are true. The accusations, made by five different women, appeared in the New York Times Thursday. The statement reads:

I want to address the stories told to The New York Times by five women named Abby, Rebecca, Dana, Julia who felt able to name themselves and one who did not.

These stories are true. At the time, I said to myself that what I did was O.K. because I never showed a woman my d**k without asking first, which is also true. But what I learned later in life, too late, is that when you have power over another person, asking them to look at your d**k isn’t a question. It’s a predicament for them. The power I had over these women is that they admired me. And I wielded that power irresponsibly. I have been remorseful of my actions. And I’ve tried to learn from them. And run from them. Now I’m aware of the extent of the impact of my actions. I learned yesterday the extent to which I left these women who admired me feeling badly about themselves and cautious around other men who would never have put them in that position. I also took advantage of the fact that I was widely admired in my and their community, which disabled them from sharing their story and brought hardship to them when they tried because people who look up to me didn’t want to hear it. I didn’t think that I was doing any of that because my position allowed me not to think about it. There is nothing about this that I forgive myself for. And I have to reconcile it with who I am. Which is nothing compared to the task I left them with. I wish I had reacted to their admiration of me by being a good example to them as a man and given them some guidance as a comedian, including because I admired their work.

The hardest regret to live with is what you’ve done to hurt someone else. And I can hardly wrap my head around the scope of hurt I brought on them. I’d be remiss to exclude the hurt that I’ve brought on people who I work with and have worked with who’s professional and personal lives have been impacted by all of this, including projects currently in production: the cast and crew of Better Things, Baskets, The Cops, One Mississippi, and I Love You, Daddy. I deeply regret that this has brought negative attention to my manager Dave Becky who only tried to mediate a situation that I caused. I’ve brought anguish and hardship to the people at FX who have given me so much The Orchard who took a chance on my movie. and every other entity that has bet on me through the years. I’ve brought pain to my family, my friends, my children and their mother.

The statement concludes with the suggestion that C.K. won’t have much more to say for a while, “I have spent my long and lucky career talking and saying anything I want. I will now step back and take a long time to listen.”

I guess this is really the only thing he can do now. Disappear for a while and hope some of the outrage blows over and, like Kathy Griffin, he can restart his career on the other side of this. I think he’ll be welcomed back at some point. In fact, I bet there are crowds of people, especially in New York, willing to give him a standing ovation just for walking back on stage (after a decent interval) or for being honest or for their own powers of forgiveness. Progressives still love Bill Clinton. They won’t stop loving Louis C.K. for long.

Meanwhile, the fallout for his career continues. Yesterday, shortly before the NY Times story on C.K. broke, the premiere of his new film I Love You, Daddy was canceled. Today, the distributor announced they will no longer be releasing the film:

Louis CK's film distributor for "I Love You Daddy" won't be releasing film. Was due out Nov 17 pic.twitter.com/rGvSuLotf0

— Cara Buckley (@caraNYT) November 10, 2017

Also today, Deadline reports that Netflix is dropping plans to produce a stand-up special with the comedian:

“The allegations made by several women in The New York Times about Louis C.K.’s behavior are disturbing,” a Netflix spokesperson said in a statement. “Louis’s unprofessional and inappropriate behavior with female colleagues has led us to decide not to produce a second stand up special, as had been planned.”

However, the C.K. stand-up special Netflix produced earlier this year, titled 2017, will still be available on the streaming service.

Finally, C.K. was scheduled to appear on Stephen Colbert’s show Thursday night but his appearance was canceled. During his monologue, Colbert devoted 3 1/2 minutes to the Roy Moore allegations and then 30 seconds (at the end of this clip) to the C.K. story.