In an interview in Spanish to Radio Centro 93.9, actress Salma Hayek has come out and said that Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump had asked her out when she had a boyfriend. She claims that when she refused to indulge him further, he planted a story in the National Enquirer saying that he refused to go out with her because she was too short.
The interview, which aired on Friday on the radio-show El Show del Mandril was picked up by the US website Buzzfeed. Hayek, a backer of Hillary Clinton had come on the show and was reportedly arguing on how Trump was bad for the Latino community. When the interviewer asked her if she believed the recent allegations of sexual harassment were true, she said she did.
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Hayek also went to say that when she had a boyfriend earlier in her career, Trump “tried to become his friend to get my home telephone number”. She described the feeling of meeting Trump when she was not well-known herself and said that “he got my number and he would call me to invite me out.”
The actress also said that after she spurned his advances and told him that she wouldn’t go out with him even if she didn’t have a boyfriend, Trump felt disrespected and got someone to call the National Enquirer. “Someone told the National Enquirer — I’m not going to say who, because you know that whatever he wants to come out comes out in the National Enquirer. It said that he wouldn’t go out with me because I was too short,” she reportedly said,
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Hayek said that Trump left her a message after all of this too. “He thought that I would try to go out with him so people wouldn’t think that’s why he wouldn’t go out with me,” she is said to have added, incredulously.
