In an appearance on Emily Ratajkowski’s podcast, actress Bella Thorne revealed that a casting director sexualized her during an audition when she was just 10-years-old. “I had a director give me feedback once, and I was 10,” the 25-year-old said on a recent podcast, per Deadline. “And they call—the casting director calls my agent, and my agent calls my mom, and they’re like, ‘So she’s not moving forward because the director felt like she was flirting with him and it made him really uncomfortable.’ … What the fuck are you talking about, man? I don’t give a fuck what I said! I don’t care if I said, ‘Eat my pussy right now!’ She is 10 years old! Why ever would you think that? Why, why?!”
During a conversation on Emily Ratajkowski’s podcast High Low With EmRata, Thorne added that she “still goes back every day” . She admitted that the traumatizing experience drives her “crazy” to this day, and has to remind herself she was not the problem. “I’m trying to find, almost, fault in myself,” she continued. “Like: ‘What did you do, Bella? What did you do that made him feel like this?’ And every time, I’m like, ‘Bella, stop it.’ Even that thought right there is becoming part of the problem.”