The
50-year-old actress opened up about Donald Trump during a
Spanish-language interview on El Show del Mandril on Radio Centro 93.9
in Los Angeles on Friday.
The Frida star
began her interview by arguing that if Trump won the presidential
election, it would be really bad for the Hispanic community. She also
revealed that Trump once courted her, despite knowing that she was in a
relationship at the time.
"When
I met that man, I had a boyfriend, and he tried to become his friend to
get my home telephone number," she shared of meeting the 70-year-old
business man early in her career. "He got my number and he would call me
to invite me out."
"When
I told him I wouldn't go out with him even if I didn't have a
boyfriend, [which he took as disrespectful], he called -- well, he
wouldn't say he called, but someone told the National Enquirer," Hayek continued.
"Someone told the National Enquirer -- I'm not going to say who, because you know that whatever he wants to come out comes out in the National Enquirer. It said that he wouldn't go out with me because I was too short," she recalled.
"Later,
he called and left me a message. 'Can you believe this? Who would say
this? I don't want people to think this about you,'" she claimed. "He
thought that I would try to go out with him so people wouldn't think
that's why he wouldn't go out with me."
This
isn't the first time Hayek has talked about Trump. She previously
called out the Republican nominee on Twitter after he confused 9/11 and
7-Eleven during a campaign speech in April.
And
while Trump has often been criticized for racist comments, Hayek has
been passionate about increasing the awareness of racism in America.
"We have a big problem," Hayek told ET last
July. "I think that this is the big elephant in the room. Because there
were many years where people were saying, 'oh, racism is over in
America.' And 'America is very inclusive.' And I think in the last
couple of years, more and more, we're realizing that that is a lie and
that this is a very big problem that we need to deal with."
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