Salma Hayek says that she was harassed and propositioned by Harvey Weinstein for years, with the disgraced exec sexually harassing her for close to a decade.
In a powerful op-ed published on Wednesday in The New York Times, Hayek reveals that after years of saying no to ‘taking a shower with him,’ ‘letting him watch [her] take a shower,’ ‘letting him give [her] a massage,’ ‘letting a naked friend of his give her a massage,’ ‘letting him give [her] oral sex,’ and ‘getting naked with another woman,’ Weinstein finally found a way to corner the actress.
After jumping through countless hoops to complete work on her dream project, the Fridao Kahlo biopic Frida, Weinstein told her he would not release the picture unless there was a naked lesbian sex scene.
Her partner in the scene? Fellow Weinstein victim Ashley Judd.
Hayek also details her experiences with Weinstein’s notorious temper, claiming he once told her: ‘I will kill you, don’t think I can’t.’
Trapped: Salma Hayek is revealing that she was sexually harassed by Harvey Weinstein for years, claiming she repeatedly turned down his advances (Hayek above with Weinstein and his first wife Eve Chilton)
When she managed to pull the film together on her own Weisntein demanded she do a nude sex scene with Ashley Judd to get the film released
Hayek had long spoken about her Frida film being the dream project she yearned to one day make in Hollywood, and did everything in her power to make that become a reality.
She stopped short however of giving into Weinstein’s demands for sex, and for that he retaliated in the harshest way possible according to Hayek.
‘When he was finally convinced that I was not going to earn the movie the way he had expected, he told me he had offered my role and my script with my years of research to another actress,’ writes Hayek.
‘In his eyes, I was not an artist. I wasn’t even a person. I was a thing: not a nobody, but a body.’
Hayek refused to back down however, and filed a ‘bad faith’ lawsuit against Weinstein, which opened the door for her to get the project back off the ground again.