“I’ve by no means stated his title as a result of, truthfully, I do not need the story to be about him,” the 49-year-old actress shared throughout her look on the most recent episode of the Name Her Daddy podcast. “It is not as a result of I am defending him or something.”

Theron revealed the director “was nervous for a bit bit” after she initially spoke out concerning the incident six years in the past.

“He knew it was about him, and he wrote me a fake letter making an attempt to elucidate his habits and the way I will need to have misunderstood it, which is basic, is not it? It is so basic,” Theron instructed host Alex Cooper, including that the director “panicked” when she went public.

Theron did not maintain again in expressing her emotions concerning the man. “I will not even f–king say your title as a result of you are the scumbag. You realize it is you,” she stated. “If anyone ever requested me about him, I’d be utterly trustworthy — and he is aware of that. I type of like that he is received to be on a sizzling seat. He does not know when it is going to come. I type of like that a bit extra.”

The actress described the unsettling expertise, which passed off throughout a casting name early in her profession when she was nonetheless modeling and making an attempt to interrupt into appearing. Theron was despatched to what was speculated to be an audition however as soon as she realized it was on the director’s home, on a Saturday evening, she knew one thing wasn’t proper.

“The little voice inside me positively stated, ‘This is not proper,’” Theron recalled. “However then, the opposite voice in me says, ‘Properly, I do not know. Possibly it’s proper.’”

Theron first went public with the story in April 2019 throughout an interview on The Howard Stern Present. She recounted how the director opened the door in his pajamas and saved making an attempt to “speak” throughout what she believed was an audition. When he “put his hand on my knee,” she received up and left.

Reflecting on the incident throughout the podcast, Theron admitted she was “mad” at herself for not doing extra on the time.

“I keep in mind being livid with myself as a result of I could not imagine how I had let myself down. I used to be like, ‘What the f–k? Who the f–k are you? Like, the place the f–k? Why the f–k would you enable that? Like, why?’ I nonetheless get these emotions,” she stated, getting emotional. She additionally addressed critics of ladies who come ahead years after their experiences.

“I beat myself up over that. You may say no matter you need, motherf–ker. Belief me, you possibly can’t harm me greater than I harm myself about what occurred that day.”

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