Actress Molly Shannon claims to have been harassed and sexually assaulted by the late comedian and actor Gary Coleman, remembered as Arnold Jackson in the American cartoon "On Taste and Smell."
The Star Night Live star was featured on Howard Stern's radio show, where she recounted what happened when she signed a contract with Coleman's manager at the time and met him in his hotel room.
Molly Shannon, Photo: AP
"I think he told me 'sit down (on the bed). It was very sweet,'" Shannon recalled at the beginning of the meeting between her and the short actor's son.
"Then he started tickling me a little bit. Things like that."
Shannon says she told him she was a virgin and tried to reject him "politely," before Goldman began to force himself on her.
"He was ruthless," she said.
"He tried to kiss me and get on me, while I said 'no, Gary. Stop' and I pushed him away from me. Then he jumped on the bed and wrapped himself around me.
I moved it and it got on me.
I guess because of his size I did not feel physically threatened.
But it went on and on.
Each time I flew him away from me and he always came back.
Then at the end I threw him to the floor.
I was short of breath because the incident was athletic and aerobic. "
The actress added: "He grabbed my leg and I tried to kick it away from me. I locked myself in the bathroom, then he pushed his hand under the door and said 'I can see you'."
Shannon says she got out of the bathroom and ran out of the room before telling their co-agent to "keep Coleman better."
"I wish I could have defended myself more," she said.
Coleman died in 2010, as a result of bleeding in his head, which was caused as a result of a fall he sustained in his home.
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