"I Felt His Genitals On Me": 11 Actors Who Accused Their Famous Co-Stars Of Doing Truly Awful Things To Them

Are determination HR departments connected movie and TV sets? Presumably. But based connected however galore atrocious things look to hap during accumulation — and however seldom anyone faces consequences — you’d beryllium forgiven for reasoning otherwise. Seriously, effort kicking a coworker to the crushed astatine your occupation and spot however that goes. But if a prima does it… everyone looks away.

That’s the reality, astatine slightest according to a fig of actors who’ve made claims astir their co-stars’ behaviour implicit the years. From on-set assaults to shocking behind-the-scenes drama, present are immoderate of the astir disturbing allegations actors person made astir their co-stars:

Note: This station contains mentions of intersexual assault, maltreatment (including involving minors), violence, and death. Reader discretion is advised.

1. Tatum O'Neal accused her co-star and begetter Ryan O'Neal of being physically abusive.

Tatum was conscionable an 8-year-old with nary acting acquisition erstwhile she was formed arsenic the girl of Ryan O'Neal (her real-life father) successful 1973's Paper Moon. Ryan O’Neal was already an established prima and surely saw his girl arsenic nary menace — conscionable different nepo babe landing a relation acknowledgment to Dad. But past thing unexpected happened. Tatum near nary crumbs (as the kids say) and wholly outshone her begetter successful the film. She not lone earned an Academy Award information for the movie (her begetter did not), but became the youngest idiosyncratic ever to triumph a competitory Oscar. This, Tatum alleges successful her 2003 memoir Paper Life, threw her begetter into a jealous rage and helium slugged her. "Things got disfigured fast," she wrote.

Tatum's memoir is simply a gripping but bittersweet work wherever she discusses her beingness increasing up with Ryan O'Neal (from whom she was estranged from overmuch of their big lives). In an particularly bleak passage, she describes telling her begetter his cause trader molested her. His response, according to Tatum? To assertion she (a minor) led the cause trader on, and kept the trader connected the payroll. Ryan was nary instrumentality of the book, saying, “She wrote a book—bitch! How situation she propulsion our laundry successful the thoroughfare for money!”

Tatum, who learned she was near retired of her father's volition aft helium died, summed up their narration successful her memoir by writing: "The relation I longed to play was ne'er written into Ryan's script: daughter."

2. According to Corey Feldman, Corey Haim said Charlie Sheen raped him portion making a movie together.

'80s kid prima Corey Feldman (The Goonies, Stand by Me, The Lost Boys) has spent years alleging that his adjacent person and predominant co-star Corey Haim told him helium was sexually assaulted by Charlie Sheen during the making of 1986’s Lucas. According to Feldman, Haim described the maltreatment to him with nary equivocation, successful disturbing detail, much than once. Feldman adjacent made a documentary astir the maltreatment the 2 accidental they faced successful Hollywood, (My) Truth: The Rape of 2 Coreys, wherever helium recounts Haim telling him, “Charlie bent maine implicit and raped me.”

Charlie Sheen denied the allegation, with a rep saying, “These sick, twisted and outlandish allegations ne'er occurred. Period.” Meanwhile, Haim’s mother, Judy Haim, said she believed her lad would person told her if it had happened, adding it was really a antithetic histrion who had abused him. She besides slammed Feldman, saying it wasn’t his communicative to tell. No transgression lawsuit emerged from the allegation, and determination has been nary ineligible uncovering substantiating it. The communicative doesn’t extremity there. In the 2025 documentary Corey Feldman vs. The World, Feldman makes the further allegation that helium was molested by Haim portion filming The Lost Boys.

3. Nicole Eggert accused her Charles successful Charge co-star Scott Baio of sexually abusing her erstwhile she was conscionable 14.

If you’re not aged capable to person immoderate wrinkles (lucky you), you astir apt don’t cognize overmuch astir Charles successful Charge, a CBS sitcom that ran from 1984 to 1990. It starred Scott Baio — already a large sanction acknowledgment to Happy Days and its spin-off Joanie Loves Chachi — arsenic a assemblage pupil who lives with a household successful speech for taking attraction of their kids. One of those kids was played by Nicole Eggert, who aboriginal went connected to prima successful Baywatch. In 2018, Eggert appeared connected some The Dr. Oz Show and Megyn Kelly Today to sermon her allegation that she was sexually abused by Baio portion filming the show. She said the alleged maltreatment began erstwhile she was conscionable 14, aft swimming astatine his house.

“He had a pool, I didn’t,” she said. “Sometimes we would bent retired astatine the excavation and person hangout sessions astatine his house; helium lived alone. We were successful his car — helium was going to instrumentality maine location — successful the store and each the lights went out. It was wholly dark, and helium reached implicit and started touching me. Touching maine beneath the belt, successful the pistillate parts.” Eggert contends the alleged maltreatment continued “probably erstwhile a week” and that she mislaid her virginity to Baio erstwhile she was 17, inactive a minor. She described Baio arsenic a “power figure” connected acceptable who conditioned and manipulated her. “I didn’t archer anybody astatine all,” she said. “He besides had conversations with maine being precise wide that cipher could know, and that it was illegal, and that everybody could suffer their job, including myself.”

Baio, for his part, has denied wrongdoing, calling her claims “100% lies,” and has said immoderate intersexual narration was consensual and occurred erstwhile Eggert was 18. He has besides said she archetypal made the allegations publically successful 2012 and 2013 portion promoting world shows she appeared in.“I don’t cognize what other to enactment retired there,” Baio said successful a Facebook video. “She’s my champion person successful the world, past each of a abrupt I’m the bogeyman. The occupation with astir each helium said/she said cases is they’re helium said/she said. Now, spell beryllium it oregon disprove it… the existent occupation with this is radical with morganatic claims aren’t taken seriously, and that’s excessively bad.”

4. Richard Dreyfuss said moving with Bill Murray connected What About Bob? was precise difficult, and alleges helium astir earnestly wounded him.

What About Bob? was 1 of the '90s champion comedies, astir a psychiatrist (played by Dreyfuss) whose overly babelike diligent (played by Murray) follows him connected his vacation. But implicit the years, Dreyfuss has spoken astir however moving with Murray was...not great. In a 2025 interview, for example, helium claims Murray broke shaper Laura Ziskin's glasses due to the fact that she was incapable to unafraid the formed and unit a time disconnected connected a holiday.

More disturbingly, though, is what helium alleged successful 2019, wherever helium described Murray arsenic "an Irish drunken bully," and recalled a nighttime erstwhile helium showed Murray a tweak he'd made to the script, saying "'Read this, I deliberation it’s truly funny.’ And helium enactment his look adjacent to me, nose-to-nose. And helium screamed astatine the apical of his lungs, ‘Everyone hates you! You are tolerated!’" He continued, “There was nary clip to react, due to the fact that helium leaned backmost and helium took a modern glass-blown ashtray. He threw it astatine my look from [only a mates feet away]. And it weighed astir 3 quarters of a pound. And helium missed me. He tried to deed me. I got up and left.”

The film's director, Frank Oz, remembered the lawsuit somewhat differently, saying successful 2025, “I got successful a country with Bill and Richard to effort and lick a publication problem. I’m not definite what it was, but helium (Murray) was evidently successful a acheronian mood. And Richard said, ‘Is that Bill talking oregon is that Bob Wiley talking?’ And I retrieve Bill grabbing a solid and saying, ‘This is Bill talking.’ And helium heaved the solid astir 10 feet up successful the aerial against a immense precocious fireplace and solid scattered each implicit the room. And I retrieve Richard going, ‘Whoa,’ and lasting up and leaving.” Murray doesn't look to person commented connected Dreyfuss' claim, and determination was nary ineligible case. Still, a large prima describing different large prima hurling an ashtray astatine him is beauteous disturbing.

5. Bill Murray was besides accused of specified unprofessional behaviour connected the acceptable of Charlie's Angels that helium didn't instrumentality for the sequel.

Bill Murray was replaced by Bernie Mac successful the Charlie's Angels sequel Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. Why? Director McG claimed that Murray headbutted him, describing it arsenic “square successful the head. An inch little and my chemoreceptor would person been obliterated." Murray has vehemently denied this, saying, "That’s implicit crap! I don’t cognize wherefore helium made that communicative up. He has a precise progressive imagination.” Murray besides allegedly told co-star Lucy Liu that she couldn’t act, and she allegedly responded by throwing punches. Murray, erstwhile asked astir this, said, “I volition disregard you wholly if you are unprofessional and moving with me. … When our narration is nonrecreational and you’re not getting that done, hide it.”

6. Samantha Ware alleged that Glee prima Lea Michele bullied her connected set, and Michele's mediocre behaviour was confirmed by overmuch of the cast.

This 1 whitethorn not beryllium arsenic over-the-top horrible arsenic immoderate of the different examples connected the list, but the sheer magnitude of formed members who came guardant to say, "I'll 2nd that!" makes it much than worthy sharing. In 2020, Samantha Ware — who played Jane connected play six — wrote successful effect to a tweet by Lea astir the decease of George Floyd, "Remember erstwhile you made my archetypal tv gig a surviving hell?!?! I'll ne'er forget. I judge you told everyone that if you had the accidental you would 'shit successful my wig' amongst different traumatic microagressions that made maine question a vocation successful Hollywood..." Ware aboriginal described “silent treatment, the stare-downs, the looks, the comments nether her breath,” and what she saw arsenic escalating hostility. She besides alleged that Michele threatened to telephone creator Ryan Murphy to person her fired, leaving her “terrified.”

Soon different actors were chiming in, dropping their ain stories. Dabier Snell, who appeared successful Season 4, alleged that Michele refused to fto him beryllium astatine the aforesaid array arsenic the remainder of the formed due to the fact that helium “didn’t beryllium there.” Heather Morris, who played Brittany, said Michele was “unpleasant to enactment with.” Amber Riley, who played Mercedes Jones, said she wouldn’t statement Michele a racist but added that galore Black actors had privately shared akin experiences with her. And Elizabeth Aldrich, a puerility understudy for Michele, said she made her outcry each the clip and accused her of demeaning unit members and allegedly threatening people’s jobs. Yikes!

In Lea's defense, not everyone agreed. Iqbal Theba (Principal Figgins) said helium was “never mistreated,” and Dean Geyer, who played Michele’s on-screen boyfriend, besides defended her. (Gotta say, though — an big and dude who played her fellow for conscionable 1 play mightiness not person gotten the astir broad look astatine her behavior.) Michele aboriginal issued a public apology, saying she did not retrieve making the circumstantial remark but acknowledged that she had “clearly acted successful ways which wounded different people.” Ware, however, aboriginal suggested the apology showed Michele “hasn’t learned anything.”

7. Meryl Streep accused Dustin Hoffman some of slapping her unexpectedly portion filming a country of Kramer v.s Kramer and putting his manus connected her breast.

These days it's astir intolerable to deliberation of Meryl Streep arsenic thing different than possibly the top histrion of each time, but astatine 1 clip she was a young histrion yet to marque her mark. And, according to Streep, her co-star successful Kramer vs. Kramer, established prima Dustin Hoffman, went mode beyond nonrecreational boundaries successful trying to propulsion a large show retired of her. (Pulling a show retired of Meryl Streep is unnecessary, of course, but alas...) Hoffman was a method histrion — helium famously erstwhile stayed awake for 72 hours to hole for a country wherever his quality was exhausted, prompting his co-star Laurence Olivier to quip, "My beloved boy, wherefore don't you conscionable effort acting?" — and took it upon himself to provoke existent affectional responses from Streep. This included slapping her unexpectedly during a scene.

She told the New York Times, "This was my archetypal movie, and it was my archetypal instrumentality successful my archetypal movie, and helium conscionable slapped me. And you spot it successful the movie. It was overstepping. But I deliberation those things are being corrected successful this moment. And they're not politically corrected; they're fixed. They volition beryllium fixed, due to the fact that radical won't judge it anymore. So that's a bully thing." The movie — astir a divorcing mates having a custody conflict — won Best Picture astatine the 1979 Academy Awards and Oscars for some Streep and Hoffman.

In a overmuch earlier 1979 interrogation not agelong aft filming, Streep recalled an enactment with Hoffman wherever helium came up to her "and said, 'I’m Dustin—burp—Hoffman,’ and helium enactment his manus connected my breast. 'What an obnoxious pig,' I thought." (It should beryllium noted that erstwhile this interrogation resurfaced during the #MeToo era, Streep's rep said the interview wasn't an "accurate rendering of that meeting" and that "there was an discourtesy and it is thing for which Dustin apologized. And Meryl accepted that.")

8. Transparent histrion Trace Lysette accused the show's star, Jeffrey Tambor, of making unwanted intersexual comments and pressing his genitals against her.

In the aftermath of #MeToo, Van Barnes — a trans pistillate and erstwhile idiosyncratic adjunct of histrion Jeffrey Tambor, who played a trans pistillate who transitioned aboriginal successful beingness connected Transparent — took to Facebook to constitute astir a erstwhile leader who gave her “butt pats,” made inappropriate intersexual comments, and made her perceive to him ticker porn. The station was wide assumed to beryllium astir Tambor, and inspired Trace Lysette, a trans pistillate and histrion connected the amusement (she played Shea), to travel guardant with her own, much serious claims.

Lysette said that, aft a agelong play of awkward flirtation connected Tambor's part, things came to a caput 1 time portion shooting a meal country wherever she wore skimpy pajamas. Tambor allegedly told her, “My God, Trace, I privation to onslaught you sexually,” past fundamentally did conscionable that a fewer minutes later, she alleges. Lysette says helium “waddled implicit to maine successful his pajamas and enactment his feet connected apical of mine, and started these little, like, thrusts connected my hip. They were discreet and insidious and creepy. I felt his genitals connected me. And I pushed him off.”

Tambor denied the allegations, releasing this statement: “I find myself accused of behaviour that immoderate civilized idiosyncratic would condemn unreservedly. I cognize I haven’t ever been the easiest idiosyncratic to enactment with. I tin beryllium volatile and ill-tempered, and excessively often I explicit my opinions harshly and without tact. But I person ne'er been a predator — ever.” After an probe by Amazon, the workplace down the show, Tambor was fto spell from the show, and here's wherever things get a spot messy. Tambor — a cisgender antheral — was playing a trans character, a information that upset galore successful the trans assemblage who called his show "transface" (a play connected "Blackface"). In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, helium posited that his departure from the amusement whitethorn person been mostly influenced by that.

9. Shirley MacLaine wrote successful her autobiography that co-star Debra Winger yelled astatine her and farted successful her face.

Terms of Endearment was not lone 1 of the biggest container bureau hits of 1984, but won Best Picture arsenic well. It was a tearjerker astir the loving enslaved betwixt a parent and daughter, but successful existent beingness determination was small emotion betwixt the actors who played the parent and daughter, Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger. Director James L. Brooks described the acceptable arsenic "stormy," and astatine slightest betwixt the 2 stars, it was. First, MacLaine bushed Mariah Carey to her iconic "I don't cognize her" enactment by 20 years, when, successful 1984, a newsman asked her astir her thoughts connected Winger earlier moving together. Her response? "Debra Winger? I didn't cognize the name. I didn't cognize who she was."

But, of each their on-set fighting, it's what MacLaine wrote successful her 1995 autobiography, My Lucky Stars, that's astir shocking. While rehearsing a scene, Winger allegedly yelled astatine MacLaine to "get implicit here" erstwhile she didn't deed her people connected set. She wrote: "'I heard you,' I said. 'I cognize marks erstwhile I spot them.' 'Good,' [Winger] said. 'How's this for a mark?' She turned around, walked distant from me, lifted her skirt slightly, looked implicit her shoulder, bent over, and farted successful my face." Winger, successful 2008, was asked by Bravo big Andy Cohen if the farting communicative — and different 1 that she'd licked MacLaine's limb portion she was filming a emotion country with Jack Nicholson — was true. She smiled and admitted determination "was thing existent successful there."

10. John Leguizamo accused Steven Seagal of physically assaulting him portion rehearsing for their movie Executive Decision; DMX has made akin accusations.

DMX, who co-starred successful 2001’s Exit Wounds with Seagal, besides alleged that Seagal didn’t prioritize information connected set. He claimed Seagal “hurt a fewer radical connected acceptable purposely,” including a stuntman whose caput helium allegedly forced done a model harder than scripted, and DMX himself, who said Seagal dislocated his enarthrosis during a scene. “It’s acting and we’re moving together,” DMX said. “I’m trusting you not to instrumentality vantage of the situation.”

11. Katherine Heigl besides accused Seagal of inappropriate behaviour erstwhile moving unneurotic connected Under Siege 2: Dark Territory.

Grey's Anatomy prima Katherine Heigl co-starred with Seagal successful Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, and she recounted connected Jimmy Kimmel Live how, connected her past time connected acceptable — conscionable weeks aft her 16th day — Seagal told her: “‘You know, Katie, I’ve got girlfriends your age.’ And I said, ‘Isn’t that illegal?’ And helium said, ‘They don’t look to mind.’”

Later, Kimmel showed Heigl a photograph taken astatine an lawsuit for the merchandise of the movie wherever Seagal has placed his manus connected the past 16-year-old's breast. (You tin spot it clearer here.) It should beryllium mentioned that she told this communicative portion laughing, and ended it with "Love you, Steven!" but that shouldn't excuse the earnestly creepy behavior.