American actress Tippi Hedren has claimed that British director Alfred Hitchcock sexually assaulted and harassed her when they worked together on the 1960s.<br /><br /> In a new memoir, she describes in detail the incidents already alluded to in interviews years earlier.<br /><br /> It chronicles her rise from fashion model to movie star, when Hitchcock spotted her and cast her in The Birds. She says his obsession with her led to an assault in a limousine, “With no warning, he threw himself on top of me and tried to kiss me,” she wrote. She said she pushed him off and left the vehicle.<br /><br /> In another incident on the set of Marnie she said he grabbed her and put his hands on her. <br /><br /> “It was sexual, it was perverse, and it was ugly, and I couldn’t have been more shocked and more repulsed,” she wrote.<br /><br /> When she turned down his advances, she said he threatened to ruin her career.<br /><br /> Addressing the past, she wrote, “it was the early 1960s. Sexual harassment and stalking were terms that didn’t exist back then.”<br />
