(WWJ) - A former coworker of Metro Detroit-native actor Tim Allen is placing him on Santa's "Naughty List' after she claims he acted more like the Grinch instead of St. Nick while working on "The Santa Clauses."
Casey Wilson, 43, accused Allen of rude behavior while working on the set of the latest Disney+ comedy television series based on the "The Santa Clause" film franchise.
Wilson, who portrays a grown-up Sara -- the young girl Allen's character meets when he first becomes Santa Clause in the 1994 film -- called her interactions with Allen while filming one episode of the 2022 series as the the "worst, truly single worst experience I've ever had with a co-star ever."
“Tim Allen was such a bitch,” Wilson on the latest episode of her podcast "Bitch Sesh," that she cohosts with comedian Danielle Schneider.
The "Saturday Night Live" alum said in one brief scene, Allen's Santa character comes down the chimney and scares Sara, but Allen made filming difficult and awkward after he complained to a producer about her acting.
“[He] goes over to the producer who is standing four feet from me and goes, and I hear him, he goes, ‘You gotta tell her to stop stepping on my lines.’ The producer turns to me with horror on his face and has to walk one foot to me and he goes, ‘Um, Tim would ask that you stop stepping on his lines.’”
She said Allen never spoke to her directly, stating: "(He) never made eye contact, never said anything. It was so uncomfortable."
Wilson continued, adding: “everybody was walking on egg shells” around Allen and “people just looked frantic.”
“[He] was so f'ing rude” once the scene was filmed, she said.
The latest comments on Allen's behavior comes almost a year after Pamela Anderson claimed that he flashed her "completely naked" while they worked on a TV show together more than 30 years ago.
Anderson claims the incident took place on the set of “Home Improvement” in 1991.
“On the first day of filming, I walked out of my dressing room, and Tim was in the hallway in his robe. He opened his robe and flashed me quickly — completely naked underneath. He said it was only fair, because he had seen me naked. Now we’re even. I laughed uncomfortably,” according to an excerpt from the book, which was obtained by Variety.
If the incident did indeed happen, Allen could have been referring to Anderson having modeled for Playboy, which she did before being cast as Lisa the Tool Girl on the ABC sitcom.
Allen said, however, that the story is completely untrue. The Metro Detroit-native told Variety in a statement: “No, it never happened. I would never do such a thing."