Charlize Theron has confessed that her first ever audition was cut short after a big-name movie producer treated her badly.

On The Howard Stern Show, the Oscar winner remembered the event from the early 1990s, saying she was just 18 or 19 years old and new to the acting business at the time.

A modeling representative advised Theron, 43, to go to the producer’s residence in Los Angeles at 9 p.m. on a Saturday.

She claims that when she arrived at the man’s residence, he opened the door in his pyjamas.

“He had a very healthy ego, he felt very good about himself,” she said. “There was some kind of muzak playing in the house. He sat very close to me. That was strange. The drinking bothered me. I was like, ‘This doesn’t feel right.’”

She later asked if she might read a few pages from the screenplay, but he denied, preferring instead to simply “talk.”

“And then at one point, he put his hand on my knee, and that’s when I just went ‘oof.’ It’s crazy, and girls talk about this, where you just go blank. You don’t know what to do. But I left.”

“I don’t even know how I got out of the house, but I left. It would have ended really badly. I was driving my Ford Fiesta, that I was renting, up Laurel Canyon and I was so angry with myself that I didn’t say something. I was like, I’m not that kind of girl. Why did I not tell him to go f–k himself?’ It made me so angry.”

When Theron was approximately 27 years old, she stated the same producer offered her a job. She didn’t mince her words this time.

“I went (to the meeting) purely just to have my moment,” she said. “He said, ‘Nice to meet you,’ and I said, ‘No, we’ve met before.’ He had no recollection of it. And his producing partner was standing right next to him. And he was embarrassed.”

Stern and her Long Shot co-star Seth Rogen, who also participated in the interview, cried out “Oooh” when the actress did not divulge the producer’s identity, but did remark he “was a very big deal and is still a big deal.”

She ruled out being one of Harvey Weinstein’s purported victims while speaking out in 2017 amid the #MeToo movement uproar.

‘The women who have spoken about their abuse are brave and heroic and although I didn’t have a personal experience like this with Harvey Weinstein, I unfortunately cannot say I’m surprised,’ she said on Instagram at the time.

‘This culture has always existed, not just in Hollywood but across the world. And many men in positions of power have gotten away with it for far too long.’