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Charlize Theron recalls uncomfortable encounter with well-known movie producer: 'You just go blank'

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Cape Town - Charlize Theron has opened up about a terrifying experience she went through when she was a teenager involving a movie producer who behaved inappropriately towards her.

"He was a big deal and is still a big deal," she revealed on radio talk show The Howard Stern Show.

The 43-year-old said a modelling agent had recommended she go for an audition after she told the agent she was interested in acting, FOX News reports.

"It was my first audition ever," the Oscar winner said.

"I'd just turned 19, I might have still been 18. I'd never been out for an audition."

The agent told Charlize the audition was at the producer's house at 21:00 on a Saturday but when she showed up the producer was barefoot and in his pyjamas.

"He had a healthy ego, he felt good about himself," she described.

"There was some kind of muzak playing in the house. He sat close to me. That was strange. The drinking bothered me. I was like, 'This doesn’t feel right.'"

The Gringo star said she kept asking the producer if he wanted her to read the pages she was given but he told her he wanted to talk instead, Page Six reports.

"And then at one point he put his hand on my knee," she said.

"You just go blank. Like you don't know what to do but I left. I don't even know how I got out of the house but I left.

"It would have ended really badly. I was driving my Ford Fiesta that I was renting up Laurel Canyon and I was so angry with myself that I didn't say something. I was like, 'I'm not that kind of girl.'"

Eight years after the incident, Charlize confronted the producer who said he had no recollection of meeting her.

WATCH A CLIP OF THE RADIO SHOW HERE:

The mom of two has been a strong supporter of the #MeToo movement and in 2018 she told the Seattle Times: "I feel in my core that there's something about this movement that's going to stick, and we're just not going to go backward.

"I wish it was there 20 years ago when I started. I wish there was a way to speak about this stuff and not be judged or be shamed, or even just believed."

Sources: FOX News, Page Six, Seattle Times

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