De Rossi made the claim on Twitter on Wednesday.
Actress Portia de Rossi has claimed that Steven Seagal “unzipped his leather pants” in front of her during a private audition in his office.
In a Twitter post on Wednesday, de Rossi claimed that Seagal told her during the audition (which de Rossi did not specify what it was for) how important it was to have chemistry off-screen before sitting her down and unzipping his leather pants, prompting de Rossi to run out of the office.
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
“My final audition for a Steven Seagal (sic) movie took place in his office,” de Rossi wrote.
“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’.”
De Rossi’s Twitter post was retweeted by her wife, Ellen DeGeneres, who said: “I’m proud of my wife.”
I’m proud of my wife. https://t.co/NABbOJoBrf
— Ellen DeGeneres (@EllenDeGeneres) November 9, 2017
De Rossi’s claims about the star of Under Siege amongst other movies come only a week after Julianna Margulies, star of The Good Wife, told Sirius XM of an unsettling hotel room encounter with Seagal when she was just 23 years old.
Margulies claimed Seagal invited her to his hotel room to go over a movie scene late at night, only to find that the female assistant who was supposed to have been in the room was gone.
“He made sure that I saw his gun, which I had never seen a gun in real life,” Margulies claimed.
“And I got out of there unscathed… I sort of screamed my way out.”
