Shirley MacLaine Remembers Donald Trump ‘Undressing’ Her in the ’80s

Shirley MacLaine revealed in her new memoir, The wall of life, that she has met thirteen of the last fourteen presidents of the United States, but there is one meeting she would like to take back.

“There was an apartment empty in that building,” she said PEOPLEreferring to 666 Fifth Avenue, an apartment complex owned by Donald Trump in the eighties. “I went upstairs to look at it and walked in because I knew it was available, and he was there. We met in a room where no one else was. In his mind I could see that he was undressing And me, and I got out of there very quickly. I didn’t take the apartment either, and it was too expensive.”

MacLaine has endured her fair share of awkward presidential moments; according to her memoir, she actually performed at john f. kennedy’s birthday party in 1962, where Marilyn Monroe famously serenaded the Prince of Camelot with a sexy rendition of ‘Happy Birthday’. But the collision with Trump was a bridge too far.

Of the last fourteen presidents, Richard Nixon was the only president they missed the opportunity to meet. “I never met Nixon,” she wrote The wall of life. “I thought he was ridiculous and wouldn’t want to meet him.”

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Elsewhere inside The wall of lifeMacLaine wrote under a photo of her God himself“Morgan Freeman. I proposed to him and he turned me down.” She also shared that she turned down the role of Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s‘s, a role that would earn Audrey Hepburn an Academy Award nomination and turn her into a star.

“In 1961 they offered me the role of Holly Golightly Have breakfast at Tiffany’s” she wrote, “but I turned it down because I didn’t want to worry about my weight to wear all those outfits and do all those fittings… I legendary hated fittings. I didn’t think it was a very good script either.”

Trump is currently in the middle of litigating his own Hollywood drama in the court of social media. The former president recently landed the leading role in Ali Abbasi’s Cannes competitor The student. Sebastian Stan stars a young Trump who rises to power in the New York real estate world under the lascivious mentorship of combative power broker Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong).

When Trump called the film a “cheap, defamatory and politically disgusting hatchet job” that will “hopefully ‘bomb'” Truth Social earlier this month, Abbasi responded“I’m available to talk further if you’d like. Today is a tight day with a lot of press (The student) but maybe I can call you tomorrow.”

MacLaine’s memoirs, The Wall of Life: photos and stories from this beautiful life, is currently available in bookstores.