Howard Stern's career-making  shock jock  antics did lasting damage, according to a new book.

While his stunts were often brushed off as  just a joke,  it seems that some participants are still feeling their sting decades later - with  Baywatch  star Nicole Eggert saying she wishes she could  reach out and hug  her younger self who sat in Stern's studio.

Eggert - who appeared in a 1995 interview in which Stern criticized her outfit and demanded,  I want you in a bikini  - spoke with author Greg Prato for his  The Great American Nightmare: An Oral History of The Howard Stern Show,  saying,  I was very programmed to just go in and just let it slide off your back. 

6 Former  Baywatch  star Nicole Eggert, pictured here alongside co-star Pamela Anderson, revealed her traumatic experience on the  Howard Stern Show  in new book. Getty Images

6 Eggert claims Stern criticized her outfit and demanded,  I want you in a bikini  when she appeared on his show in 1995. Courtesy Everett Collection

Eggert says she felt pressured to go along because Stern's show was No. 1 and turning down the appearance could anger the people managing her career.

She also wasn't comfortable with some of his questions, saying the studio wasn't a  safe environment. 

 Watching old clips of the show and seeing how many women were treated - or more fittingly, mistreated - is also shocking,  Eggert says in the book.

6 Eggert, pictured here more recently, rewatched her interview decades later and recalled thinking,  I wish I could just like, reach out and hug that girl.  Getty Images for Cindy Eckert

6 Howard Stern, pictured here, is under fresh heat from former employees and guests who claim there was a dark side to his show. Eric Kowalsky / BACKGRID

Rewatching her own interview decades later left her cringing.  I wish I could just like, reach out and hug that girl,  she says, adding that while she had thick skin, other women might not be as resilient.

Still, Eggert says she doesn't regret appearing and takes pride in refusing to put on a bikini.

Meanwhile, some Stern staffers say in the book that they regret their p
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