American actress Mira Sorvino, who has accused Harvey Weinstein of sexually harassing her in the 1990s, has now opened up about an incident involving a casting director, claiming he gagged her with a condom during an audition when she was 16. In an interview with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's "HFPA In Conversation" podcast, the Oscar-winning actress, a supporter of the #MeToo movement, has shared her personal experience with harassment in the industry, reports pagesix.com.

"In looking back over at my career, I realised that one of my very first auditions when I was 16, I was completely treated inappropriately by the casting director," the now-50-year-old said. "In order to scare me for this horror movie scene, he tied me to a chair, he bruised my arm, and I was 16 years old, and then he gagged me, and I was all game because I'm trying to be scared for the scene. "And at the end he takes the gag out of my mouth and he said, 'Sorry for the prophylactic', so he had gagged me with a condom," claimed Sorvino, who did not name the casting director or movie.