Shirley MacLaine has recalled her 'terrifying' encounter with former President Donald Trump in the 1980s – saying she was forced to escape his presence.
The 90-year-old actress has authored and documented their uncomfortable interactions in her new picture book, The Wall of Life, scheduled for release on October 22.
Shirley said Trump, 78, was undressing in his mind when they met in the 1980s, and said she tried to prevent him from leaving an undisclosed event.
He wrote: 'Probably in the 1980s, I came into contact with Donald Trump. I was at some function and he looked up at me when he walked in.
'I could tell right away that he started pulling his tie off and in his mind he started taking my clothes off… his clothes.
Shirley MacLaine Recalls Her 'Terrifying' Meeting With Former President Donald Trump
In her memoir, Shirley says that Trump started undressing in his mind during their meeting, causing her to panic.
'It was scary how open he was. He found a way to stop me from leaving, but I had to leave.
In the '80s, real estate mogul Trump quickly became a popular face, appearing on The Oprah Winfrey Show and David Letterman.
By 1982, he was on the Forbes Rich List thanks to his share of his family's $200 million net worth.
Trump would have been married at the time he met Shirley, and his account must be correct.
The businessman, who has been accused of sexual abuse by several women, married his first wife, Ivana Trump, in 1977, and the former couple divorced in 1991.
He later married Marla Maples in 1993 and divorced four years later.
Trump eventually married Melania Nas in 2005.
Thanks to major shows like The Turning Point (1977) and Being There (1979), Shirley had already become a household name in the 1980s.
Shirley (pictured backstage at the 1987 Academy Awards) said she met Trump in the 1980s.
American businessman Trump pictured in 1981
Her fame reached new heights in 1983 when she won the Best Actress Oscar for her role in the comedy-drama Terms of Endearment.
It is not clear what year Shirley and Trump met.
The actress has dedicated her upcoming book to her ex-husband Steve, who revealed he was a spy.
Married from 1954 until their divorce in 1982, the couple famously had an open marriage and several affairs.
Recalling the moment Steve confessed, Shirley wrote: 'Steve took me to his favorite restaurant one evening – he'd gone quiet – and I knew he was struggling with his next words.
“You shouldn't tell anyone what I'm about to say, but I think you should know.”
Then he spoke: “I'm in hiding with military intelligence… You must promise me your silence.” I did.
'He told me more about his background and his father's background, which I won't divulge. A few weeks later we got married.
“I'm not sure I'd say Steve and I had a happy marriage, but it was satisfying,” she continued.
The mogul married his first wife Ivanka in 1977 and the couple eventually divorced in 1991.
Shirley has dedicated her upcoming book to her ex-husband Steve, who she reveals is a spy.
'He was gone so happy. Whoever I was with had a mistress in Japan.
We first talked about that situation during my relationship with Robert Mitchum.
'Steve wanted to know how deeply committed I was, and I wasn't deeply committed enough to get a divorce.'
Shirley added: 'I was [the Rat Pack’s] Symbol… they protected me (Some of Steve's friends called and asked him to take care of me as he was an important intelligence man.)'
Shirley and Steve welcomed daughter Stephanie Parker in 1956.
Stephanie, who goes by Sachi, previously revealed to the Daily Mail in 2013 what her mother was like. He bullied her into losing her virginity at 17 – insisting she tell two waiting sex therapists how it went.
In one column Sachi wrote: 'For someone who became one of Hollywood's biggest stars during the heady Sixties, my mother was surprisingly naive about drugs.
'I remember going to a dinner party with her in the early sixties where the host brought out a bowl of cocaine.
As the guest of honor, my mother was given the first tip, so she poured two heaping spoonfuls of – I don't know how many thousand dollars worth – into her coffee.
'The collective suffocation that followed sucked almost all the oxygen out of the room.'
