She adds: “I felt disgust and shame, and like nobody would ever think of me as being clean again.”

She then claims that Toback threatened her by saying: “There is a girl who went against me […] this is a promise, if she ever tells anybody, no matter how much time she thinks went by, I have people who will pull up in a car, kidnap her and throw her in the Hudson river with cement blocks on her feet.

“You understand what I’m talking about, right?”

She reports that he’d previously alluded to having people killed, saying, “I do it all the time. I know people.”

More than 200 women are said to have come forward with accusations about Toback since the story was published 22 October, and LA police confirmed it had taken numerous calls concerning the director.

The accusations come as part of a wider conversation about harassment, assault and sexism in the TV and film industry, following several allegations against famed producer Harvey Weinstein.

In the same Vanity Fair article, Rachel McAdams says she also had a disturbing experience in a hotel room with Toback, describing herself as “very lucky” to have left without being assaulted.

She claims the director told her “You know, I just have to tell you. I have masturbated countless times today thinking about you since we met at your audition.” She also says he left her in the bedroom to go to the bathroom, and told her he had just masturbated.

Selma Blair says director threatened her life after sexual harassment