A former Disney Channel star, Bella Thorne, stated that she was sexualized by a Hollywood director when she was just 10 years old. She claimed she was accused of trying to “flirt” with him.
Bella Thorne revealed the alleged incident, but she didn't name the instigator of the incident when she gave an interview on fellow celebrity Emily Ratajkowski's podcast.
“I had a director give me feedback once and I was ten and they call the casting director, who calls my agent, and my agent calls my mom. And they’re like, ‘So she’s not moving forward because the director felt like she was flirting with him and it made him really uncomfortable,’” Thorne recalled.
“What the f**** are you talking about, man? I don’t give a f*** what the f*** I said. I don’t care if I said ‘Eat my p**** right now.’ She is ten years old. Why ever would you think that? Why?” Thorne added.
Thorne claimed it would have been impossible to flirt with the director.
“You’re in a director session, you can’t really like say or do much. You do the scene, you say hello, you walk out — there’s no time to like, ‘Let me go sit on your lap or like, make you feel uncomfortable.’”
Ratajkowski responded, “Putting it on a 10-year-old child and making it like they made an adult man uncomfortable is insane. And then that was relayed to a casting director who was happy to relay that to your mom. Like if you need a more f***ed up story about Hollywood and like pedophilia and the sexualization of children, like I don’t know that there is one.”
Bella Thorne also revealed that Disney faced pressure to dismiss her when she was 14 years old following a photo being leaked online showing her in a bikini on the beach. (Thorne starred in the Disney Channel series Shake It Up.)
“So not only were they sexualizing you, they were blaming you,” Ratajkowski declared.
Bella Thorne has alleged she was “molested” and “physically abused” throughout her time as a child actor in the entertainment industry between the ages of six and fourteen, claiming that the adults who were around her at the time “did nothing” about it.
In recent times, Thorne has dabbled in OnlyFans and also directed a porn film for the website Pornhub.
