Salma Hayek and her French businessman husband, Francois-Henri Pinault, were at the World Cup playoff at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis yesterday (November 18) where they watched the game between Republic of Ireland and France.

Joining a group of mere mortals, the billionaire couple cheered on the French team as the Irish were put out by what is being reported as a controversial goal by Thierry Henry.

Meanwhile, in a new piece by the Bikya Masr, it’s revealed that Salma told a symposium in Cairo recently that she was sexually harassed in Egypt when she was visiting the country when she was only 17-years-old.

Speaking as an honored guest at the Cairo International Film Festival, the film star received warm greetings for the symposium held in her honor at a Cairo hotel to promote the festival’s events.

Hayek said she went on a touristic tour of Cairo, visited the Pyramids since her arrival earlier this month and expressed her happiness to visit Egypt for the second time in her life and that she thinks the country is very safe, saying she could accompany her daughter in the streets of Cairo without fear. In her native Mexico, where kidnapping is commonplace, this would be unheard of, the Frida, From Dust till Dawn and Fools Rush In star told the audience.

But, she recalled memories of her first visit to Cairo 26-years ago when she was 17, which immediately garnered the applause of the audience for revealing her age.

She told the crowd that when she was riding a camel near the Pyramids with her mother and aunt, the man who was pulling the camel began to pull the camel away and took her away from her family and destination. Hayek says that when she became scared she began to scream, until her mother heard her calls and brought police and a tourist guide to stop the man from taking her away.

The actress said she was caught off guard when the 70-year-old shepherd proposed to her and wanted to give her family camels as dowry. “I couldn’t believe my ears!” She tried to lighten the mood by adding, while laughing, “I could have lived all my life here in Egypt with the camel shepherd.”

While most of the audience was eager to hear the retelling of Salma’s story, one member of the audience blasted: “this is an insult to Egypt!”