The actress made the allegation on Twitter yesterday.
Portia de Rossi has claimed that Steven Seagal unzipped his trousers during a private audition in his office.
Taking to Twitter, de Rossi made the claim to her near 350,000 followers, saying:
“My final audition for a Steven Seagal movie took place in his office.
“He told me how important it was to have chemistry off-screen as he sat me down and unzipped his leather pants.
“I ran out and called my agent. Unfazed, she replied, ‘Well, I didn’t know if he was your type’.”
My final audition for a Steven Segal movie took place in his office. He told me how important it was to have chemistry off-screen as he sat me down and unzipped his leather pants. I️ ran out and called my agent. Unfazed, she replied, “well, I didn’t know if he was your type.”
— Portia de Rossi (@portiaderossi) November 8, 2017
The post was later retweeted by de Rossi’s wife Ellen DeGeneres, who said:
“I’m proud of my wife.”
I’m proud of my wife. https://t.co/NABbOJoBrf
— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) November 9, 2017
These allegations against Seagal come just days after The Good Wife star Julianna Margulies recalled her unsettling encounter with the actor.
“When I was 23, a casting director, a woman, said, ‘Well, Steven Seagal wants to go over the scene with you in his hotel room tonight’,” she told SiriusXM.
“I got to the hotel room around 10:40pm and she wasn’t there and he was alone and he made sure that I saw his gun, which I had never seen a gun in my life.
“And I got out of there unscathed… I never was raped and I never was harmed.
“I don’t know how I got out of that room.”
Steven Seagal has yet to respond to any of the allegations.
