In his new memoir, Baby Don’t Hurt Me: Stories and Scars from Saturday Night Live, actor Chris Kattan reportedly accuses SNL boss Lorne Michaels of pressuring him to sleep with A Night at the Roxbury‘s then-director Amy Heckerling in hopes that it would keep her tied to the film. The SNL alum writes that he initially refused, but later, he and Heckerling had sex in what he described as “the ‘casting couch'” in her office. “I was attracted to Amy, but at the same time very afraid of the power she and Lorne wielded over my career,” writes Kattan in Baby Don’t Hurt Me.

In 1997, Kattan and SNL pal Will Ferrell began pre-production on A Night at the Roxbury, a feature film based on their popular sketch. At the time, Clueless‘ Heckerling was attached to direct, and Kattan recalls that one night after working late, she asked him if they were going to have sex. “I was shocked. Was she joking?” he says in Baby Don’t Hurt Me, excerpts of which were shared on Twitter by journalist Seth Simons. Kattan adds that he “tried to keep it light” with a half-hearted response, and “the conversation ended there.”

Kattan goes on to say that the next day, he got a call from Michaels, who had signed on to produce A Night at the Roxbury. He explains that Michaels told him “Paramount would only do the movie if Amy signed on as a director, not as producer,” and if he “wanted to make sure the movie happened, then [he] had to keep Amy happy.” According to Kattan, Michaels continued, “Chris, I’m not saying you have to fuck her, but it wouldn’t hurt.”

“That seemed insane,” Kattan says of Michaels’ warnings. He goes on to say that he wanted to consult Ferrell, but Michaels told him “it was best if [he] didn’t mention it” to “Will or anybody else.” Ultimately, Kattan obliged. “I was too scared,” he writes. “The last thing I wanted was to have someone hear Lorne say ‘career ender’ about me. To this day, whenever I think about that conversation with Lorne, I still feel repellingly pathetic.”

Kattan claims that a few weeks later (and after one post-party kiss initiated by Heckerling), he and Heckerling had sex. “She thought it would be fun to have sex on Lorne’s desk,” he recalls. “I said a polite ‘Fuck, no!’ to that, so we ended up going to her office and having sex on… yep, you guessed it, the ‘casting couch.'” Heckerling ultimately ended up taking on a producer role, and John Fortenberry stepped in as director. But despite the behind-the-camera switch, Kattan was still unnerved by the entire situation. “I was attracted to Amy,” he writes. “But at the same time very afraid of the power she and Lorne wielded over my career.”

Chris Kattan’s memoir, Baby Don’t Hurt Me: Stories and Scars from Saturday Night Live, is available for purchase on Amazon.

Update, May 29, 2019 at 7:23am ET: Page Six later reported that a rep for SNL denied the claims, stating, “This did not happen.” They also noted that, according to show reps, the publisher never verified the claims made in the book. Decider has reached out to the publisher for comment.

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