Rachel Bilson’s candor once backfired on her.
Last week, the 44-year-old actress appeared on the Why Won’t You Date Me? podcast hosted by Nicole Byer and recounted how she got fired from a job after joking about her bedroom preferences in a May 2023 episode of the Women On Top podcast.
While The O.C. alum — who shares daughter Briar, 10, with ex-fiancé Hayden Christensen — noted that she could “see both sides,” she explained that context is crucial as she was having a fun conversation.
“When you take something out of context and just read it as a standalone comment, thought, whatever, it can come off a certain way, sure,” Blison remarked. “When you’re talking like, basically, with girlfriends and you’re joking around, and I said something like ‘I like to be manhandled.’”
“Because I used that word in whatever context, and they just took that out of the conversation, it didn’t sound great,” she admitted. “But I think it was a very conservative company, so they weren’t comfortable just talking about sex at all. In general.”
The Heart of Dixie alum — who never revealed what job she was let go from — shared that the experience influenced what she publicly discusses.
“I definitely felt myself filtering a little bit after that, “Cause I was like, ‘Oh my god, if I say this, am I gonna lose this job? Am I gonna be judged? Shamed?’” she confessed.
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