Philipps has mentioned Franco shoving her to the ground before, in 2016 on Andy Cohen's Watch What Happens Live. But in her forthcoming memoir, Phillips details the incident. According to a report in Radar Online , Philipps writes that she was directed to gently hit Franco in the chest while delivering a line, which prompted him to break character. “He grabbed both my arms and screamed in my face, ‘DON’T EVER TOUCH ME AGAIN!’” she writes in the book. “And he threw me to the ground. Flat on my back. Wind knocked out of me.” She writes that Franco apologized the next day after being ordered to do so by the director and producers. Phillips' book, titled This Will Only Hurt a Little, comes out Oct. 16,
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