During her appearance on Nicole Byer’s Why Won’t You Date Me<\/a> podcast, the Hart of Dixie star revealed she was let go by an unnamed company after she made a comment about her bedroom preferences on her Broad Ideas podcast in 2023.<\/p>\n “Did I want to fight it? Absolutely,” Bilson told Byer.<\/p>\n “Look, I can see both sides. When you take something out of context and you read something as a standalone comment, it can come off a certain way, sure.”<\/p>\n However, Bilson noted at the time she was “talking basically with girlfriends” and it was intended as a joke.<\/p>\n “I said something like, ‘I like to be manhandled,'” she explained.<\/p>\n “That’s nice. ‘Throw me around,'” Byer quipped.<\/p>\n She said the girls at the time had a similar reaction to the comment.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rachel Bilson Reacts to Feud with Whoopi Goldberg Over Body Count Comments<\/p>\n View Story\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n “Olivia [Allen], who cohosts\u00a0Broad Ideas\u00a0with me, her mom’s like 83. She was like, ‘I like to be manhandled!’ You know? Like everyone could relate,” Bilson argued. “But because I used that word in whatever context, they just took that out of the conversation. It didn’t sound great. But I think it was a very conservative company so they weren’t comfortable talking about sex at all, in general.”<\/p>\n Bilson then insisted: “We were joking around!”<\/p>\n She said she felt she had to change how she acted following the experience.<\/p>\n “I definitely felt myself filtering a little bit after that,” she explained. “Cause like, ‘Oh my god, if I say this am I gonna lose this job? Am I gonna be judged? Shamed?'”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rachel Bilson Confirms Kings of Leon Song is About Her<\/p>\n View Story\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Bilson discussed her 2023 firing at the time on her Broad Ideas<\/a> podcast declaring it was the “first time” it’s ever happened to her in her professional life.<\/p>\n “[That] I lost a job this week because of things that were said.”<\/p>\n “A single mom, a woman, lost a job because they were being candid and honest and the subject was sex,” she stressed at the time.<\/p>\n While she didn’t regret the statement, she did admit that had she known there was a job on the line she would have “said it differently.”<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/a76751a09f574616ad4e533db3e4c92c_xs.jpg\")
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