“I’m not a zoo animal,” Bush said.

“I finally go over and I say, ‘Hi, I’m a person.

I’d like to shake your hand.

Sophia Bush attends Paramount’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner after party at the Residence of the French Ambassador on April 30, 2022 in Washington, DC.

Sophia Bush.Shedrick Pelt/Getty Images

My name is Sophia.

You’re making me really uncomfortable, man.

I’ve asked you to stop.

I’m a girl in a bar.

You are a man I do not know.

I don’t wanna be videoed on your phone.

And my friends don’t either.

Can you hey stop?'”

The man had a sour response and replied, “‘I don’t have to stop.

You’re in public,'” Bush said.

And he goes, ‘I watch your show, so I pay your f—ing salary.

You are a piece of meat to me.’

And I just went, ‘What?'"

Bush later asked, “‘Do you understand the way you’re talking to me?'”

To which the man replied, “‘You’re just a TV prostitute,'” she said.

“I just don’t know how we go quietly.

“I don’t wanna be nice.

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