Bella Thorne bashes Hollywood director who said she 'flirted with him' at age 10

Former Disney star Bella Thorne recalled a disturbing interaction when she was just ten years old.

During a podcast appearance on Emily Ratajkowski's High Low, the 25-year-old expressed her anger when the unnamed director accused her of flirting, aged 10.

"I had a director give me feedback once, and I was 10," she started, adding that the director gave her agent a call with brow-raising feedback as to why she didn't get a role.

"So, she's not moving forward because the director felt like she was flirting with him, and it made him really uncomfortable," she continued.

"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 10 years old. Why ever would you think that?!" Thorne said, referring to herself.

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Podcast host EmRata said the director's interpretation was the "real issue" before Thorne highlighted that in a "director session", there isn't even enough time to cross paths or "say or do much."

"You do the scene, you say hello, you walk out!' she said before EmRata added: "That's a child!"

Thorne continued: "There's no time to, like — 'Let me go sit on your lap!'— or, like, make you feel uncomfortable. What the f***!"

She also opened up about a time she "almost got fired" at 14 years old from the Disney Channel for wearing a "two-piece on the beach".

"One time I almost got fired off the Disney Channel because I was 14 and I wore a two-piece on the beach," the ex Shake It Up star said. "This stylist that I was hanging out with put this chain on me that’s like a body chain, I don’t know. I don’t care. There was a fan, they got a photo of me on the beach, I almost got fired."

The actress said the photos were "all over", leading to backlash.

She continued: "Blaming me and putting Disney under pressure to fire me, and obviously Disney didn’t fire me, but also they were like, 'Hey, we’re getting a lot of heat for this, everyone’s getting heat for this because you’re in a bikini on the beach,'"

"'So, she needs to make sure that she goes out in board shorts and a loose T-shirt next time she’s at the beach.'"

Indy100 reached out to Disney Channel for comment.

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