In a detailed Facebook post, actress Kristina Cohen has alleged that Westwick raped her three years ago at his apartment in Los Angeles, while she was attending a dinner party with her then-boyfriend.

Now Westwick has responded to the claims, saying he has “never” assaulted “any woman”.

After Westwick allegedly suggested that “we should all f**k”, Cohen says in the post that she asked to leave. However, she says she felt pressured into staying because her partner – an unnamed producer who she states was friends with the Gossip Girl star – didn’t want to make Westwick feel awkward.

“Ed insisted we stay for dinner,” Cohen wrote. “I said I was tired and wanted to leave, trying to get out of what was already an uncomfortable situation, [so] Ed suggested I nap in the guest bedroom.”

Cohen has said that she “went and laid down in the guest room” and eventually fell asleep.

“I was woken up abruptly by Ed on top of me, his fingers entering my body,” she recalled. “I told him to stop, but he was strong. I fought him off as hard as I could but he grabbed my face in his hands, shaking me, telling me he wanted to f**k me.

“I was paralyzed, terrified. I couldn’t speak, I could no longer move. He held me down and raped me.”

Gossip Girl’s Ed Westwick responds to rape allegations brought against him by Kristina Cohen