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Anjelica Huston: Any man who hits a woman ‘deserves to be outed’

Anjelica Huston, pictured in October 2014. Araya Diaz / Getty Images

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.”

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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.

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“As far as I’m concerned, whatever happened is [Polanski’s] business, and I wasn’t there for any untoward behaviours,” she said. “And I can say that with some happiness.”

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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