‘I want to f–k you’

David Boreanaz is revealing the NSFW interaction he had with his “Bones” guest star Betty White the first time they met.

While chatting at the “Bones: 20th Anniversary Retrospective” panel at the inaugural Televerse Festival on Saturday, Aug. 16, Boreanaz, 56, recalled being aggressively hit on by White.

Boreanaz famously played FBI special agent Seeley Booth in the hit drama for 12 seasons. The late “Golden Girls” star made two appearances on “Bones,” starring as Dr. Beth Mayer, whom audiences were first introduced to in 2015.

During the panel, hosted by People, fellow “Bones” star T. J. Thyne recalled White being “a little troublemaker” on set. His comment caused Boreanaz to tell his own story about his first interaction with the legendary comedian, who died in 2021 at age 99.

“She showed up in the diner. They drive her in and put her — Ms. White — [they] usher her in. And she says hello to everybody,” the actor shared. “And Emily [Deschanel] and I are waiting for her. And she’s like, ‘Good to see you. Oh, good to see you. You’re so nice. You’re so pretty.’ She goes up to Emily — ‘Oh, you’re so pretty.’”

When White saw Boreanaz, she lost her cool.

“She looks at me, she goes, ‘Holy s–t, I want to f–k you. I want to f–k you!’ I just started laughing,” he said.

Deschanel, however, didn’t remember that interaction.

“I’m not saying it didn’t happen, I’m saying I didn’t hear that, but that’s amazing,” she responded, as “Bones” alum Tamara Taylor labeled White a “legendary potty mouth.”

White’s first cameo on the series was in 2015 during Season 11. She returned as Dr. Beth Mayer for another appearance in the twelfth and final season.

“Bones” aired on Fox from 2005 to 2017, and earned two Primetime Emmy nominations during its 12-season run.

The popular crime drama, created by Hart Hanson, also featured Michaela Conlin, John Francis Daley, Eric Millegan, Carla Gallo and more.

In 2024, Deschanel and Gallo started a rewatch podcast called “Boneheads,” in which they give fans insight into each episode.

At the panel, Deschanel shared how “fun” it’s been to look back and watch episodes.

“It’s been really interesting to see the show because all of them I hadn’t watched for 20 years basically. And then there’s a couple so far that I hadn’t seen yet, I don’t think. And then definitely as we go along, there’ll be ones I never have seen,” she shared. “So it’s interesting to look back and see like, ‘What did we do?’ And I guess one takeaway is, hey, it was pretty solid. The show is pretty solid.”

“Bones” wasn’t always a thrill for the actress, though.

Deschanel, who played forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan, shared last month that she had “shame” about being “unprepared” during her time on set.

“We were working insane hours, longer than just a normal series. You’re working 14- to 16-hour days, and then I had to memorize the lines,” she recalled on David Duchovny’s podcast, “Fail Better,” in July.

“So I’d be staying up late [at] night memorizing lines. I would joke that I would go home and just cry in a bathtub every night because I was just so overwhelmed,” the star admitted. “I’d come to set and I would be trying to remember the lines … that I had memorized the night before, and then I had them in my head and couldn’t remember them.”

It got so bad that Hanson intervened one day after she arrived late to set.

“Hart knocked on my trailer door, which was not a usual thing, he wasn’t knocking on my door often,” Deschanel recalled. “He took me aside and says, ‘The studio has concerns about your work.’ They said that I was late and unprepared. That to me — I get emotional just thinking about it now because it was probably shame.”

She continued: “I mean, I was a wreck. I took it so hard. I was such a fragile person at the time. I got hardened up doing that show for so long. I was not sleeping, I was so stressed out. I was already, I’m an emotional person, so I was just beside myself.”

Deschanel said that her conversation with Hart resonated with her, and she was never late again.