Kristin Davis Claims She Was Forced Into Topless Scene While Filming ‘Sex and the City’

For years, fans have celebrated how the women of ‘Sex and the City’ navigated work, friendship, and romance in New York. The show’s fearless tone helped define late nineties and early aughts TV and made its core cast household names. Kristin Davis, who played Charlotte, has long been part of that legacy.

Lately, Davis has been revisiting old episodes and sharing behind the scenes memories on her podcast ‘Are You a Charlotte’. She talks about what it took to bring Charlotte to life and how certain choices landed differently once the cameras stopped. That included moments that were funny on screen and complicated in real life.

In a recent episode, Davis said one scene still makes her bristle. She recalled being asked to bare her chest during a Season 5 storyline where Charlotte flashes partygoers at a Navy event. The way it happened, she said, did not feel like a choice at all. She called the experience “mortifying”.

Davis explained that she pushed back but was told to go through with it. “He kept telling me, ‘It’ll be fine. It’ll be great’,” she said, describing how the conversation unfolded on set. She added that they were filming in a busy restaurant and that “there were people everywhere,” which only heightened her discomfort. She says she “didn’t want to” do the shot and felt “a lot of stress about it.”

The actress has been candid about how different the standards were at the time. Intimacy coordinators were not part of everyday production norms. She says she leaned on her own instincts to speak up when something felt off. That did not always change the outcome. But it did leave her with a clearer sense of how she wished things had been handled.

Davis also contrasted that day with another nude moment from Season 6. That storyline shows Charlotte preparing for conversion to Judaism with a mikveh bath. Davis said the tone of that scene made a difference. Because it was rooted in spirituality and not designed as a sexual beat, she eventually felt proud of how it turned out. “Because it wasn’t sexual, it’s much easier to have some nudity in a non sexual way, in a spiritual way,” she said.

Her reflections arrive as viewers continue to debate how ‘Sex and the City’ balanced sexual frankness with respect for performers’ boundaries. Davis’s account offers a reminder that even beloved cultural milestones can contain tough stories about power and consent. What looks breezy in a montage can feel very different in the moment.

She made it clear she still loves Charlotte and the friendships that anchored the show. She also said she understands why the series meant so much to fans who grew up with it. The point, in her view, is not to erase the past but to learn from it so that actors today have more support and more say in what their bodies are asked to do.

Davis’s voice carries weight because she is not trying to shock anyone. She is telling a story that many in Hollywood will recognize. As more stars speak openly about scenes that crossed a line, the hope is that the next generation will get the same bold storytelling with better guardrails in place.