‘He tried to dry hump me and lick my armpit’: Mad Men actress accuses Oscar-nominated screenwriter James Toback of sexual assault at an audition – one of 310 women to make claims
Becky Wahlstrom said she was assaulted during Black and White audition in 1998
She has claimed James Toback licked her armpit and tried to dry hump her
She fought back, knocking over a table and beating him on the chest, she said
Wahlstrom, 42, documented the alleged assault in seven pages of her diary
She spoke out on Facebook 19 years after the assault in the wake of Weinstein
‘I was motivated to speak because he denied everything,’ she told MailOnline
By CLAUDIA JOSEPH
DAILYMAIL.COM
18 November 2017
An actress who starred in the US series Mad Men has accused Oscar nominated screenwriter James Toback of trying to ‘dry hump’ her and licking her armpit during an audition.
Becky Wahlstrom said she fought off Toback’s unwanted advances, knocking over a glass table and trashing his hotel room in her desperation to escape.
She documented the alleged assault in 1998 in seven pages of her diary – including pencil drawings of her alleged abuser.
But she said she had only felt brave enough to speak out now, in the wake of the revelations about Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein and after Toback denied any impropriety with any other women.
Toback, who was nominated for an Oscar in 1991 for the Warren Beatty hit Bugsy, has been accused of sexual impropriety by 310 woman but denies any wrong-doing.
Miss Wahlstrom, who also appeared in Joan of Arcadia and The Opposite of Sex, posted her claims on Facebook.
She was so incensed by his behaviour that she scoured her journals to find the diary entry from August 1998 about her audition for the crime drama, starring Robert Downey Jr, Jared Leto, Ben Stiller, Claudia Schiffer and Brooke Shields, on August 13, 1998.
‘In solidarity with the women who bravely came forward and to bolster their claims,’ she wrote, ‘I’m attaching excerpts from my journal entry written one day after my meeting with JT Aug. 13, 1998. It’s all in there.’
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