Overview
- The incident occurred on the 1972 Disney film Napoleon and Samantha when Foster was about nine, and it was not captured on camera because it happened after a take.
- She says an animal trainer intervened by telling the lion to “Drop it,” and she recalls seeing the camera crew run as the animal held her.
- Foster describes two sets of puncture wounds on her hip and notes she still has many scars from the attack.
- After a hospital stay she returned to the production and later had a separate scare with the same lion while carrying a rooster, prompting her to flee.
- She calls the mauling the scariest event she has experienced while making a movie, according to accounts in Entertainment Weekly and The Hollywood Reporter.