Gavin and Stacey star Joanna Page has said she was "groped" by a TV host after being warned about him.
The actress said a female producer told her he could be "very handsy" and is "probably going to start touching you".
According to The Times the actress made the comments in her new book, Lush!
She added she was not naming the person for legal reasons.
The 48-year-old said: "Halfway through filming, he starts groping me.
"I hit his hands and said, 'What do you think you're bloody doing? I feel like I'm in Bristol Zoo being mauled by the lions.'"
After that he stopped, she said.
"It was bizarre, a female producer telling you this was going to happen, but it's what you got used to," Ms Page added.
In the interview with The Times the actress also spoke about when the role of Stacey Shipman came along and how she was working in a south London shoe shop.
"It was the first time since leaving drama school I'd thought, 'I know these voices! I know this world!'"
"My mum is exactly the same as [Stacey's mum] Gwen. If you're miserable or upset, she's like, 'Do you want an omelette?'
"Before I first went to London my uncle Anthony gave me a rape alarm, just like Stacey's Uncle Bryn.
"This part was mine. It was sacrilege if it went to someone else, who was either putting on an accent - although you're allowed to do that, I have done my entire career - or they had famous parents, or they were just famous."
She added that had she not got the part she would have been "done with the whole thing".
She told the paper that at the audition [Ruth] Jones told her to adopt a Cardiff accent.
"The one time I get to go for something Welsh, I still can't do my own voice."
Page added she had no idea what a Cardiff accent sounded like, so made one up.
"Ruth took me outside and said, 'What are you doing? Just talk the way you normally talk.'"
She did, won the part and Jones and co-writer James Corden altered the script to make Stacey from Swansea.
She said to The Times that the series allowed her to turn down most other work to focus on her children, two dogs and four guinea pigs.