Bella Thorne opened up about a seriously disturbing time early on in her acting career, claiming a director accused her of flirting with him while she auditioned for a role at just 10 years old. Speaking to Emily Ratajkowski on the December 27 episode of her “High Low” podcast, Thorne admitted she still thinks about the moment a lot. “[I’m] trying to find almost fault in myself. Like, ‘What did you do, Bella? What did you do? You made him feel like this,'” she shared, revealing she’s now learned she was not to blame for what happened — no matter what she said or did at the time. “You’re in a director session, you can’t really say or do anything. You do the scene, you say hello and you walk out. There’s no time to go sit on your lap or make you uncomfortable,” she said. Plenty shared their support for Thorne on social media, with one person writing, “The industry is the worst place any child to grow up in.”
Thorne’s been extremely candid before about her harrowing experiences growing up, including sharing she was molested for eight years from the time she was 6 years old. “It’s pretty hard… everyone thinking they know me and talking about me, but having no idea the type of mistreatment that I was still dealing with at that time,” she shared on “BUILD Series” in 2019.
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