“The Nanny” star Lauren Lane claims Wallace Shawn made an unwanted advance when he appeared as a sexual guest star in the sitcom’s second season in 1994.
Lane, who plays theater businesswoman C.C. Babcock on the CBS show starring Fran Drescher, meaning Shawn stuck his tongue in her ear as he said goodbye to her after a week of discussing “literature and writing and being a playwright How is it?
“I will become an honest king. I was going up to my dressing room and he was going back to New York, so we hugged goodbye and he put his fucking tongue in my ear,” she told Vice on Thursday about the encounter. rough encounter.
“I remember leaving and inside it was like a little death because it felt like was that all for the week? Like, you don’t really like talking to me? It’s terrible.”
Lane, 60, told the newspaper that she did not think Shawn, 77,’s slip of the tongue was an accident but instead an unwanted “sexual affair.”
“I didn’t expect it either because nothing we did or talked about felt like — I mean, why would someone stick their tongue in your ear?” she speaks. “That really hurts me.”
Vice said it spoke to a friend of Lane’s who confirmed the actress recounted the incident to him in 2011.
For his part, Shawn denied any wrongdoing in a statement to the publication.
“In all my 77 years, I have never put my tongue in anyone’s ear,” he said in an email. “Not that I condemn those who do so, if any. If we hug goodbye, maybe I’ll kiss her on the cheek?”
