Bethenny Frankel reveals a “producer tr[ied] to sleep with me” in a casting office, and she shared why she “contemplate[d]” it. The Real Housewives of New York alum also suggested that the current lawsuits over Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni aren’t showing “real abuse.”
Earlier this month, Bethenny claimed that one side in the legal battle between Blake and her It Ends With Us director Justin reached out to Bethenny to hear her opinion on it. Blake has accused Justin of sexual harassment, and Justin’s legal team has accused Blake of creating a smear campaign against him.
In a February 23 Instagram post, Bethenny addressed her past experience.
“I have walked into a casting agent’s office and have them tell me that I have to lose eight pounds,” she said. “I have had a producer try to sleep with me, and me contemplate it because I actually wanted to get a role in the movie.”
But Bethenny shared that she decided against it because “that’s just not how I roll.”
“It is a different world, but literally [the It Ends With Us lawsuit] is getting to be much ado about nothing,” she said. “Like whatever happened is not … Let’s see. I want to see naked bodies. I need sex. I need, you know, bondage. I need chains … I’m gonna need some real abuse here in order to get excited. Cause now it’s like, ‘He stole my pencil case and I felt violated.’”
“Enough!” she added. “I need a real f**king harassment situation … Give me something to f**king chew on. We need the meat to be served now.”
On February 5, Bethenny posted an Instagram video explaining that someone in the legal war contacted her.
“I will tell you that one side tried to reach out to me to discuss it,” she said at the time. “And my opinion about it was the following. This is exactly what I said to them: It’s a botch job.”
“This was in the beginning [of the controversy],” the star continued. “I was like, ‘This is a botch job. You botched it. The way you start a race is often how you finish.’”