In her new memoir, Watch Me, 63-year-old actress Anjelica Huston writes that her ex-boyfriend Ryan O'Neal brutally assaulted her at a Beverly Hills party in the late 1970s after she didn't immediately return from the bathroom. "He turned on me, grabbed me by the hair and hit me in the forehead with the top of his skull," she writes.

Afterwards, Huston "saw stars and reeled back. Half blind, I ran away from him. Ryan was batting me about the head with an open hand. Then abruptly he left."

In Watch Me, out November 11, Huston also writes about her relationship with Jack Nicholson and that time she got busted for cocaine with Roman Polanski. People has snippets here.

O'Neal, of Love Story fame, hasn't commented on the allegations.

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