Julianna Margulies, an Emmy Award-winning actress, has shared a troubling encounter she had with Steven Seagal, a well-known action star, in his Manhattan hotel room before her audition for the 1991 film Out for Justice.

In an interview with CBC Radio’s Q, Margulies said that she was called by the casting director to Seagal’s hotel room to run a scene with him.

Margulies felt apprehensive about going to the hotel room as it was late at night, but the casting director assured her that they would pay for a car and that she was going to get the role.

When Margulies arrived at Seagal’s hotel suite, she discovered that the casting director was not there.

Seagal asked Margulies to sit down, and as she sat down, she felt something hard underneath the cushion.

Seagal apologized and took out a big black pistol from underneath the cushion, which made Margulies feel uneasy.

Margulies realized that she was in a dangerous situation when Seagal asked her to go to the bedroom because he was tired.

Margulies followed Seagal to the bedroom, considering whether to run or fight.

He put his gun down on the nightstand and asked if he could read her palm, claiming that he was a “healer.”

Margulies recognized the ridiculousness of his healer “shtick” and felt less threatened by the gun on the nightstand.

She ran out of the room, saying that she had to go.

Margulies felt ashamed of what had happened to her and did not tell anyone for a long time because she did not want anyone to think that she had gotten the role because she went to Seagal’s hotel room.

She said that she was “one of the lucky few who got out of there unscathed.”

Seagal has been accused of sexual misconduct by a number of women, including Jenny McCarthy and Portia de Rossi, but he has denied the allegations and has never been charged with any crimes.

Margulies recounted her experience in her new memoir, Sunshine Girl: An Unexpected Life, and first shared the story in November 2017 during the #MeToo movement.

She said that she wanted to validate the stories of other women who had come forward with their experiences.

“We all need someone to relate to, I think, just in terms of being able to say, ‘Oh my God, I’m so glad that happened to her too because I thought I was crazy’,” Margulies said.

Margulies said that the Steven Seagal story gave a lot of women a feeling of relief that their stories were heard and true.

Seagal has not responded to Margulies’s allegations.