'SNL' Alum Chris Kattan Claims Boss Lorne Michaels Pressured Him To Sleep With A Director!

UPDATE 5/29/2019 3:58 PST: A rep for SNL has now responded to Kattan’s claims, telling Page Six unequivocally:

“This did not happen.”

They also made clear they were not given the heads up on the story before the memoir went to press.
Neither Lorne Michaels nor Amy Heckerling have personally commented on the book’s contents.

We’ve heard many stories of sexual misconduct from people in positions of power in Hollywood over the past couple years. Far too many.
But this may be the most unexpected one.
Chris Kattan‘s memoir Baby Don’t Hurt Me: Stories and Scars from Saturday Night Live was released on May 7, unsurprisingly to not much fanfare.
But that didn’t mean the book was without its piping hot tea.
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We’ve already heard the SNL alum claims he broke his neck during a sketch — and NBC knew about it and refused to pay his medical bills.
However, the most disturbing allegation is just now getting attention after being pointed out by an independent journalist on Twitter.
Kattan claims Clueless director Amy Heckerling propositioned him while in preproduction on the film A Night At The Roxbury.
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More disturbingly, he says his SNL boss Lorne Michaels, the film’s executive producer, pressured him to do it!
WTF??
In the excerpt shared on Twitter, Chris describes the moment the woman who was “basically his boss” suggested they have sex:

One day, after an afternoon of casting, Amy offered to drive Will and me home. The three of us had a great time in her BMW listening to some new songs I thought would be perfect for Roxbury. On the way to my apartment, after Will had been dropped off, Amy turned to me at a stoplight and in the shyest tone, asked something very blunt: “Are we gonna have sex?”
I was shocked. Was she joking? Did she mean today, right there in the car, or sometime in the future? I had no idea how to respond. We weren’t formal with each other or anything, but she was still basically my boss, and aside from the usual playfulness you’d expect from a couple of comedians and a director working together on a comedy, everything had been professional between us up to that point. I tried to keep it light. “I don’t know,” I said. “I can’t believe you just said that.” The conversation ended there. But while I had never thought about it before, now that it was out there, I couldn’t stop thinking about it.

That alone would have been sketchy enough.
But what Kattan says happened next was more of an outright coercion — and it was by SNL head honcho Lorne Michaels:

The following day I was at [then-girlfriend Jennifer Coolidge’s] apartment when I got a call from Lorne. He sounded furious.
“Amy doesn’t want to direct the film, ” he said.
When I asked why, he began to yell, shouting a me that Paramount would only do the movie if Amy signed on as director, not as producer — a screen credit Lorne wasn’t interested in sharing. And if I wanted to make sure the movie happened, then I had to keep Amy happy. Why me? I thought. How is this my responsibility?
“Chris, I’m not saying you have to f**k her, but it wouldn’t hurt.”

Wow.
What he’s describing is absolutely disgusting. Just imagine if ten years later he’d told Kristen Wiig to sleep with Adam McKay. Because that’s what we’re talking about; a cast member being suggested — by the man who holds their career in his hands — to perform a sexual act to keep their job.
Kattan says he asked to talk to costar Will Ferrell about it, but Lorne told him not to, saying it “didn’t concern Will or anybody else, and it was best if I didn’t mention it.”
He says there “wasn’t a thing about this conversation that didn’t make me uncomfortable” — most of all he was expected to keep things from his partner. However, as so many do in the situation, he kept silent.

“I was too scared. I thought maybe I could tell Will and make him promise to keep it secret from Lorne, but that seemed risky, too. 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.”

We have no way of confirming any of this, obviously.
But like we said, we’ve heard many #MeToo stories. And this reads to us like someone who was shamed into silence.
Kattan goes on to write that a few weeks later, after he and Coolidge had split, he did end up having sex with Heckerling while they were working on the movie. (She ended up as a producer, with Clueless TV show director John Fortenberry as director.)
He recalls: