Actor tells of being lured to Seagal’s room

FORMER ER star Julianna Margulies has revealed both Steven Seagal and Harvey Weinstein tried to lure her to their rooms.

“When I was 23, a casting director, a woman, said, ‘Steven Seagal wants to go over the scene with you in his hotel room at 10 o’clock at night’. I got to the hotel at 10.40, and she wasn’t there. And he was. Alone. And he made sure that I saw his gun.

“And I got out of there unscathed … I never was raped. And I never was harmed. And I don’t know how I got out of that hotel room … I sort of screamed my way out,” she told Jenny Hutt’s Sirius XM show Just Jenny.

The New York Post reports that she added: “It always starts with, ‘I’m a healer, I want to massage you’.”

Katherine Heigl has previously talked about Seagal’s sleazy behaviour when she starred alongside him as a 16year-old in Under Siege 2.

Because of her experience with Seagal, Margulies later refused to meet Weinstein in his hotel room unless the female assistant came up with her.

It was 1996 and Margulies was in her third season of ER.

In both cases, “Women were leading me to the lion’s den”.