Bella Thorne Says Casting Director Accused Her of “Flirting” at Age 10

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Bella Thorne precocious recalled going connected an audition erstwhile she was 10 years, wherever a casting manager allegedly accused her of “flirting with him” and making “him truly uncomfortable.”

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Content warning: This communicative discusses intersexual abuse.

Bella Thorne said her aboriginal acting experiences weren't each rosey.

During an quality on 's High Low podcast, the Disney Channel alum alleged that she mislaid an acting occupation erstwhile she was 10 years aged aft an unnamed casting manager accused her of "flirting" with him astatine an audition.

"The casting manager calls my cause and the cause calls my mom, and they're like, ‘So she's not moving guardant due to the fact that the manager felt similar she was flirting with him and it made him truly uncomfortable,'" Bella recalled connected the Dec. 27 episode, per The Hollywood Reporter. "What the f--k are you talking about, man?!"

Bella, 25, admitted she "still go[es] back" to that enactment "every day," adding that it drives her "crazy." She said she indispensable subsequently punctual herself that, arsenic a child, she was "not the problem" successful that situation.

"I'm trying to find astir responsibility successful myself," she continued. "Like: ‘What did you do, Bella? What did you bash that made him consciousness similar this?' And each time, I'm like, ‘Bella, halt it.' Even that thought close determination is becoming portion of the problem."

The Shake It Up star besides said she was confused connected however the casting manager would leap to that decision because, arsenic she explained, "in a director's session, you can't truly accidental oregon bash anything."

"You bash the scene, you accidental hullo and you locomotion out," she said. "There is nary clip to spell beryllium connected your thigh oregon marque you uncomfortable."

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Bella's interview comes 5 years aft she archetypal revealed her past sexual maltreatment portion voicing her enactment for the anti-sexual misconduct Time's Up fundraising campaign. Responding to a person's remark connected Twitter, she said successful December 2017 that she was molested arsenic a child, noting that Disney had thing to bash with it. She opened up astir her acquisition much on Instagram the pursuing month.

"I was sexually abused and physically increasing up from the time I tin retrieve till I was 14..when I yet had the courageousness to fastener my doorway astatine nighttime and beryllium by it," she wrote connected Instagram in January 2018. "All damn night. Waiting for idiosyncratic to instrumentality vantage of my beingness again. Over and implicit I waited for it to halt and yet it did. "

The histrion added, "But immoderate of america aren't arsenic fortunate to get retired alive. Please contiguous basal up for each psyche Mistreated. #timesup." 

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