Joan Collins says she clashed with police officer over wearing wrong mask inside store: 'He yelled at me'

The 87-year-old "Dynasty" star said she was "yelled at" in Ikea after swapping out her face mask for a clear face visor, which is now illegal under a new law put in place last month.

Dame Collins was in St. Tropez with Piers Morgan and Julian Clary when she visited the Swedish homeware store. It was there the star claimed she was "pounced" on.

The actress wrote in the Spectator, "An officious gendarme became deeply offended by it, and while I was mulling over the benefits of Ikea’s gravadlax vs its smoked salmon, he pounced.

"Gesticulating in Gallic fashion, he yelled at me to put on a proper mask, because visors aren’t legal.

Chastised, I slunk away, muttering an Anglo-Saxon expletive under my breath, which, as he glared at me, I feared he might have understood," the English actress continued.

"I then tried wearing a clear plastic facemask, of the sort which all the staff at the Byblos were wearing, but although it was easier to speak and to be understood, it forced my face into a hideous rictus," Collins explained.