FILE – In this Sept. 22, 2015, file photo, actor Steven Seagal speaks at a news conference, while attending an opening ceremony for a research and development center in Moscow, Russia. Jenny McCarthy said on her Sirius XM show Nov. 9, 2017, that Seagal sexually harassed her during an audition in 1995. A Seagal spokesman has denied the McCarthy’s accusations to The Daily Beast. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, File)
Jenny McCarthy says actor Steven Seagal sexually harassed her during an audition in 1995.
The former Playboy model recounted her encounter with Seagal during a tryout for “Under Siege 2” on her Sirius XM radio show Thursday.
Jenny McCarthy. Image: INQUIRER.net stock photo
McCarthy told the same story to Movieline in 1998.
“I went to the audition for ‘Under Siege 2’ with, like, 15 other Jenny McCarthys. These girls came in and out of his office and I was last,” she said in the interview.
She says she was alone in the room with Seagal when he asked her to sit next to him on a couch. After she declined, she says Seagal asked her to take her clothes off even though the part required no nudity.
When he still insisted on having her undress after she refused, the actress said she started crying and yelled, “Rent my [Playboy] video, you a**hole!'” and ran to her car.
Seagal followed her and warned her not to talk to anyone about the encounter.
A representative for Seagal didn’t immediately return a request for comment Friday, but a Seagal spokesman has denied McCarthy’s accusations to The Daily Beast. NVG
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