Actor Jameela Jamil claimed last week that she orgasmed while DJing at a Young Farmers Ball nearly 15 years ago.
During a recent podcast appearance on “The Romesh Ranganathan Show,” Jamil said when she was a DJ in England, she was working a Young Farmers Ball at a venue that was “so big” that the decks had to go on top of the “ginormous” speakers.
“I’m a sensitive young woman, or I was at the time,” said Jamil, who is known for playing Tahani Al-Jamil in “The Good Place.”
“I was 26, I think. And I had to DJ on the speakers, but the vibration of the bass was awakening something in my groin area. And so, I started having an orgasm in front of 6,000 people and I’m trying my best to cover it up, but it’s very intense.”
While telling the story, Jamil breathed heavily, explaining that her tour manager thought she was having an asthma attack and offered her an inhaler.
“So I have an orgasm and I think I’ve gotten away with it and I think it’s mildly funny, but then, once women pop, we’re like Pringles,” Jamil said. “We can’t stop. And so it happens again.”
She continued: “It just started happening again and again and again, and after like three, it stops being funny.”
“I think I came relentlessly for an hour set and then fainted at the end, and couldn’t feel anything from, like, the waist down and couldn’t even pee for like 12 hours. I barely survived,” she said.
Jamil, who was promoting her podcast “Wrong Turns,” also spoke about her distrust of journalists. While she never mentioned anyone by name, writer Tracie Egan Morrissey accused Jamil of embellishing stories about her life in 2020. In response, Jamil called Morrissey a “poorly researched stalker.”
On “The Romesh Ranganathan Show,” Jamil described her “maddening experiences” with journalists, saying “they just write everything they don’t like about controversies of mine from 15 or 20 years ago.”
Earlier this year, Jamil, who has used her platform to speak about feminism, wrote in a Substack that she was done being interviewed by female journalists “specifically in print” because “they can liberally pepper or smother the piece with their assumptions, interpretations, insecurities and projections.” The declaration came after The Sunday Times wrote a profile that Jamil’s “claws” retracted after she said she didn’t want to discuss Morrissey’s accusations.
“Women deserve to be called out as much as men,” she said on the podcast.