Megan Fox has finally spoken out about her resurfaced interview with Jimmy Kimmel that saw her recall an early acting experience in which many fans felt she was sexualized.
In her 2009 appearance on the talk show, Fox was promoting Transformers: Rise of the Fallen - directed by Michael Bay.
At one point, Fox talked about her very first experience working with Bay when she was just 15 on his film Bad Boys II. She recalled being "soaking wet" in the movie as she was expected to dance under a waterfall.
Check out the interview here:Kimmel responded to her story by joking around, for which he received a great deal of flak when the interview began making the rounds online last year.
Speaking to Washington Post, Fox was asked about the unearthed interview with Kimmel and she responded: "That was a microcosm of my whole life and whole interaction with Hollywood. It was just very dark.
"I was so lost and trying to understand, like, how am I supposed to feel value or find purpose in this horrendous, patriarchal, misogynistic h*** that was Hollywood at the time?"
In the controversial interview, the actress told the host: "I was wearing a stars and stripes bikini and a red cowboy hat and six-inch heels, and he approved it. They said, you know, Michael, she’s 15, so you can’t sit her at the bar and she can’t have a drink in her hands.
"So his solution to that problem was to then have me dancing underneath the waterfall, getting soaking wet."
Despite the shocking nature of her anecdote, the audience laughed and clapped.
"At 15, I was in 10th grade," she reiterated. "That’s sort of a microcosm of how Bay’s mind works."
Kimmel responded by saying: "Yeah, well, that’s really a microcosm of how all our minds work - but some of us have the decency to repress those thoughts and pretend that they don’t exist."
When the clip went viral last summer, Fox reached out to her fans to thank them for their support.
She wrote: "While I greatly appreciate the outpouring of support, I do feel I need to clarify some of the details as they have been lost in the retelling of the events and cast a sinister shadow that doesn't really, in my opinion, belong."
The Jennifer's Body star went on to clarify: "But when it comes to my direct experiences with Michael, and Steven [Spielberg] for that matter, I was never assaulted or preyed upon in what I felt was a sexual manner."
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