Cameron Diaz narrowly missed a face-off with a lion while shooting new MTV travel show TRIPPIN' in Africa when one attacked two of her crewmen.

The star was preparing to go on a balloon ride over the Serengeti early one morning when she heard her crewmen crying for help.

"I can hear, I know exactly, like instinctually (sic) (it's) the paws of this cat just running and I hear this growling and then I hear this ‘Aarrrghh'. I was like,'Was that TONY or TRIPP, I'm not sure...' It was one of the lions charging a couple of the guys.

They ran like little babies back into the house. I, of course, grabbed my camera and ran outside", Femalefirst quoted her as saying.

The actress says that she also had an encounter with a huge millipede while she was on the toilet.

"I was over going to the bathroom out at this crocodile facility that we're at.I'm, like, in the most precarious position, completely vulnerable and this millipede comes crawling out of the toilet and it's got, like, a zillion fingers coming out... ", she recalled.