'I didn't want to be seen, I didn't want to have to take a photo, do a magazine, walk a carpet, I didn't want to be seen in public at all because the fear, and the belief, and the absolute certainty that I was going to be mocked, or spat at, or someone was going to yell at me, or people would stone me or savage me for just being out… so I went through a very dark moment after that. In the clip, which was filmed in 2009, Megan recounts a story of being an extra in Bad Boys II at age 15, where she was put in a bikini and six-inch heels by director Michael Bay. 'I think I had a genuine psychological breakdown where I wanted just nothing to do,' she said about the time period when Jennifer's Body was made. And, I thought if ever there were a time where the world would agree that it’s appropriate to victim-shame someone, it would be when I come forward with my story.”įox also opened up to ET during a 2019 interview with her Jennifer's Body director, Diablo Cody, about her state of mind in 2009. “I just didn’t think based on how I’d been received by people, and by feminists, that I would be a sympathetic victim. 'One could assume that I probably have quite a few stories, and I do - I didn’t speak out for many reasons,” the mother of three said at the time. With the Bad Boys trilogy back in the spotlight with Bad Boys For Life hitting the big screen in January, an old interview by Megan Fox, who appeared in Bad Boyz 2 in 2003, has resurfaced and brought back sexist claims made against Michael Bay, the director of the first two films.

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