And I thought if ever there were a time where the world would agree that it's appropriate to victim-shame someone, it would be when I come forward with my story. Although Megan’s performance in Bad Boys II didn’t make the final cut, her 2009 interview with Jimmy Kimmel discussing her role went viral after resurfacing on Twitter on June 22. 'I just didn't think based on how I'd been received by people, and by feminists, that I would be a sympathetic victim.

I don't know if there will ever be a time where I'm considered normal or relatable or likable. Here is what she had to say: 'The first time I ever met bay, I was 15, and I was an extra on Bad Boys 2. And because of my experience, I feel it's likely that I will always be just out of the collective understanding. While promoting 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,' Fox went on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live,' where she talked about being an extra on 'Bad Boys 2' at the age of 15 and how Bay put her in a bikini under a waterfall. 'Instead, I was rejected because of qualities that are now being praised in other women coming forward. 'I don't want to say this about myself, but let's say that I was ahead of my time and so people weren't able to understand,' she said. They continued, 'Teen girls being preyed on by older men has never been taken seriously and still isn't.'Īfter appearing in Bad Boys II, Fox starred in two more of Bay's Transformers movies, but left the franchise in 2010 after their relationship reportedly soured.ĭuring a 2018 interview with The New York Times Fox opened up about why she had stayed largely quiet during the #MeToo movement. I had just turned 15, and I was an extra in. Posting the interview, one user tweeted, 'Clip from 2009 where Megan Fox tells a story about Michael Bay sexualising her as a 15 y/o the crowd laughs, and Kimmel makes gross jokes.' Over the weekend, Twitter users began sharing a clip from a 2009 interview in which Fox recalls her experience as an extra on the Bad Boys II set.

A viral 2009 interview with Jimmy Kimmel has resurfaced in which Megan Fox recalls how Michael Bay treated her on the set of Bad Boys II when she was 15. Since the clip resurfaced, Twitter fans have been unimpressed with Kimmel's reaction to The Transformers star telling him how Bay treated her as a teenager on set. He added, 'Some of us have the decency to repress those thoughts and pretend that they don't exist.' That's kind of a microcosm of how Bay's mind works,' to which Kimmel responded, 'Yeah, well that's really a microcosm of how all our minds work.' Jimmy Kimmel interviews Megan Fox in 2009 as she recalls how Michael Bay treated her on the set of Bad Boys II when she was 15.

As the audience laughed, the Jimmy Kimmel Live host quipped back and said, 'Perfectly wholesome.'įox continued, 'At 15, I was in 10th grade.

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