TORONTO — Actress Anjelica Huston said Monday she decided to write about an alleged assault by actor Ryan O’Neal because “any man who lifts a hand against a woman deserves to be outed.”
Appearing on Monday’s episode of Today, Huston added: “I’ll leave it at that.”
Huston alleged in her memoir Watch Me that O’Neal grabbed her by the hair at a party in a Beverly Hills mansion.
“He turned on me, grabbed me by the hair, and hit me in the forehead with the top of his skull. I saw stars and reeled back. Half blind, I ran away from him.”
Huston recalled she tried to speak to O’Neal in a bathroom but he allegedly started “batting me about the head with open hands.”
The 63-year-old Oscar winner also said she was elsewhere on boyfriend Jack Nicholson’s property when director Roman Polanski sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl.
Huston won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for 1985’s Prizzi’s Honor and was nominated for her work in 1989’s Enemies, a Love Story and 1990’s The Grifters.
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