Courtesy of People

Goldie Hawn has had a long and substantial career, but it wasn’t always cherry pie. In a new cover story with People magazine, the Snatched star opens up about an infamous “casting couch” moment.

After running into a casting agent in New York, she met with famed cartoonist Al Capp for what she thought was an audition.

“I was 19. I went up for the ‘meet,’ and it was so scary,” Hawn tells People magazine editor in chief Jess Cagle. “He took off his business clothes and came in in, like, a dressing gown. I got the picture, and I thought, ‘I’m in trouble. Where’s the door?’”

She said he gave her an acting note, which was over layed with sexual intentions. “I went, ‘Wait a minute. He knows what he’s talking about,’” she remembered. “I said, ‘Okay, so I’ll do it, like, more quiet, more real.’ Then he wanted me to show my legs, and I said, ‘You know, Mr. Capp, I don’t know. I don’t think so,’ and then I sat down and he wanted me to give him a kiss, and I went, ‘I don’t do this. I’m sorry.’”

Capp then told her she’s “never gonna make anything in your life” and to go home and marry a dentist.

“I was crying and I didn’t have any money to go back to the [1964 New York] World’s Fair, where I was dancing, and so he threw me $20 for a taxicab,” she adds. “It wasn’t a good day.”

As People reports, years later, Hawn wrote Capp a note after she was cast on Laugh-In in 1968 and won an Oscar for 1969’s Cactus Flower, thanking him for not casting her on the show, saying, “I didn’t have to go marry a Jewish dentist.” Capp died in 1979 at the age of 70.