O'Mara spoke on several occasions about her experience with the casting couch. On an episode of "The Word" in 1994, O'Mara claimed that American producer Judd Bernard pulled down her panties during a hotel-room audition for the Elvis Presley vehicle "Double Trouble". In her autobiography "Vamp Until Ready: A Life Laid Bare", O'Mara described this incident and "many other close encounters with... this very unpleasant and humiliating procedure", including with a well-known television casting director, the boss of Associated Television at Elstree Studios, and the director of "Great Catherine".