Rachel Bilson Says She Lost a Job for ‘Speaking Candidly’ About Sex: I Was ‘Baffled’

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An unexpected consequence. Rachel Bilson claimed that she was recently fired from a job because of her comments about wanting to be “manhandled” by her sex partners.“This is the first time it’s ever happened to me in my professional life that I lost a job this week because of things that were said,” the Hart of Dixie alum, 41, revealed during the Monday, May 15, episode of her “Broad Ideas” podcast. “A job got taken away from me because I was speaking candidly and openly about sex in a humorous way on our friend’s podcast.”In order to view the video, please allow Manage CookiesThe former O.C.

star explained that she wasn’t just in talks for the gig but had already been hired. “I basically got a job that I already had pulled from me because I was speaking openly about sex,” Bilson said. “In this day and age, I’m baffled.

A single mom, a woman, lost a job because they were being candid and honest and the subject was sex.”The California native went on to say that the controversy stemmed from an interview earlier this month where she was discussing her favorite sex positions.

During a May 3 appearance on the “Women on Top” podcast, Bilson said she prefers missionary, adding that she likes “to be f–king manhandled.”The Jumper actress explained on Monday that she made the comments “in a joking manner” while “speaking candidly” with the podcast’s hosts, Tammin Sursok and Roxy Manning. “I didn’t even have a chance to defend myself,” Bilson added, referring to the unnamed company’s decision to pull her. “I’m a single mom — like, I need these jobs.