Rachel Bilson Admitted She’s “Floored” After Losing A Job For “Speaking Openly About Sex” On A Podcast,“A single mom, a woman, lost a job because they were being candid and honest and the subject was sex. … I didn’t even have a chance to defend myself.”
Rachel Bilson Admitted She’s “Floored” After Losing A Job For “Speaking Openly About Sex” On A Podcast
Rachel Bilson doubled down on her decision to talk “candidly and openly” about her sex life after losing a job over comments she made during a recent podcast episode.
After the episode came out, her comment about being “manhandled” wound up being picked up by a number of news outlets, which Rachel has since revealed had serious repercussions in her professional life.
“It’s been an interesting week, guys,” she said during Monday’s episode of her own podcast, Broad Ideas. “This is the first time it’s ever happened to me in my professional life, that I lost a job this week because of things that were said and then spun in the press and clickbait headlines and whatnot.”
“I basically got a job, that I already had, pulled from me because I was speaking openly about sex,” she clarified.
Rachel didn’t name the brand she’d been working with, but she did confess that she was “baffled” by the company’s decision to cut ties, later saying, “I feel like it’s discrimination.”
“I said it in a joking manner in the interview, like, ‘Yeah, I wanna get fucking manhandled.’ Basically, it’s like, okay, give control or take control in the bedroom, whatever,” she explained. “Because that specific line was pulled and it made it sound a certain way, I didn’t even have a chance to defend myself. I didn’t have a chance to speak on it.”
Rachel — who shares an 8-year-old daughter with her ex Hayden Christensen — said she was “floored” by the loss, admitting that “everything counts” for her when it comes to work opportunities.
“I’m a single mom. Like, I need these jobs, you know … I provide a lot for my family — my daughter — and regardless of anything else, it all matters,” she said. “Everything was set in motion and I lost the job. It sucks.”
“I haven’t said anything inappropriate,” she reflected. “Choice of language, if I could go back, now knowing I lost a job, maybe I would say it differently. But I still wouldn’t not say it.”
You can listen to the full episode of Broad Ideas here.
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