A former “The Price is Right’’ model is sharing why she still despises the show’s late host, Bob Barker.

Holly Hallstrom, who was one of the long-running game show’s “Barker’s Beauties” for 18 years, was fired in 1995. The show told her she was axed because of her weight, but according to a teaser clip from the new E! docuseries “Dirty Rotten Scandals,” Hallstrom says she was canned for way more nefarious reasons.

“I hate that man,” Hallstrom can be heard saying while choking back tears at the end of the clip.

The E! docuseries digs into Barker’s affair with another one of the show’s models, Dian Parkinson. After Barker broke up with Parkinson, she sued him for sexual harassment. Kathleen Bradley, another former model from the show, recalled in the doc that Parkinson told her that Barker had forced Parkinson “to do things to him in the dressing room, where I didn’t want to do it,” according to a summary of docuseries by People.

Hallstrom said in “Dirty Rotten Scandals” that she believes the real reason she was kicked off the show was because she refused to defend Barker in Parkinson’s case.

“I wanted nothing to do with it,” Hallstrom said in the doc, which proposes that the early years of the game show were rife with sexual harassment and racism. “I was the only one that was asked to give a deposition and did not. I didn’t want to commit felony perjury, which is exactly what it would have been if I gave a testimony.”

“I refused to testify in court, to commit felony perjury for him,” Hallstrom later added to People. “That was the final straw, but it’s against the law to fire an employee for failing to testify on your behalf in a court of law, so they could not fire me for that.”

So, according to Hallstrom, the show went with the weight excuse.

“And then the lawyers called me and started negotiating terms of my retirement,” Hallstrom says in the doc. “And I’m like, ‘I don’t want to retire. There’s no need for me to retire.’ But there really was no choice. Barker wanted me gone. I was being fired, and I would not be coming back… after close to 20 years on the show.”

HuffPost has reached out to “The Price is Right” for comment.

Hallstrom’s life became as stressful as the show’s Plinko game after she decided to share her side of her firing with the tabloid show “Hard Copy,” which prompted Barker to sue her for defamation.

The lawsuit lasted years, and Hallstrom compared the battle against Barker as “overwhelming” and “like fighting a giant machine.”

Five years later, in 2000, Barker eventually dropped his case, prompting Hallstrom to sue him for malicious prosecution, per People.

“They did offer me a settlement that would include a non-disclosure agreement, meaning that I could not speak publicly about the show. But I knew that I was not going to sign an NDA because he is a liar. He is a shameless, self-promoting liar,” Hallstrom said. “I was fired. I had the truth on my side. There was no justice in, ’You can win because you have more money. Over the years, I sold my house, savings account, portfolio. All of it was spent just trying to stay in this lawsuit. I just didn’t want him to win.”

Hallstrom said that thanks to her lawsuit, she eventually “lost everything” and “was totally broke and living out of my car.”

“I couldn’t afford to stay in this lawsuit and I would have to settle, and I was not going to do that,” she said.

Hallstrom told People that she waited until Barker’s death to speak out again because if she had, he would’ve sued her “again in a heartbeat.”

Barker died in 2023 at the age of 99.

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