Sketchy Things Everyone Just Ignores About Megan Fox

In June 2020, a 2009 Jimmy Kimmel Live! interview with Megan Fox went viral on Twitter, where the actress described being an extra on Michael Bay's Bad Boys II. "I was wearing a stars and stripes bikini and a red cowboy hat and six-inch heels, and he approved it," Fox said (via BuzzFeed). "They said, you know, Michael, she's 15, so you can't sit her at the bar and she can't have a drink in her hands." She added: "His solution to that problem was to then have me dancing underneath the waterfall getting soaking wet ... so that's sort of a microcosm of how Bay's mind works."

Kimmel responded, "Yeah, well, that's really a microcosm of how all our minds work — but some of us have the decency to repress those thoughts and pretend that they don't exist," to audience laughter. This led to the hashtag #CancelKimmel, with fans demanding the host apologize for making light of Fox's sexual objectification.

In response to this viral campaign, Fox published a lengthy post to Instagram to push back on the "subsequent mishandling of this information" by the media and the Twittersphere. Claiming that she was "never assaulted or preyed upon in what [she] felt was a sexual manner" by either Bay or Steven Spielberg, Fox noted, "There are many names that deserve to be going viral in cancel culture right now, but they are safely stored in the fragmented recesses of my heart."

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