Uma Thurman has finally spoken out against Harvey Weinstein after hinting for months that she was one of the movie mogul’s alleged victims.
In an article in The New York Times on Saturday, Thurman describes several incidents in which Weinstein either forced himself on her or exposed himself in hotel rooms.
The first was in Paris after she had appeared in Pulp Fiction in 1994.
The first Weinstein ‘attack’ happened, she said, in his hotel room of London’s Savoy. She did not give a date for the alleged encounter but said: ‘It was such a bat to the head. He pushed me down. He tried to shove himself on me.
Uma Thurman claims Harvey Weinstein exposed himself to her and tried to force himself on her on at least two occasions. She also alleges misconduct by the director Quentin Tarantino with whom she is commonly associated with thanks to their iconic collaborations on films such as Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction. The trio are pictured in 2004
‘He tried to expose himself. He did all kinds of unpleasant things.
‘But he didn’t actually put his back into it and force me.
‘You’re like an animal wriggling away, like a lizard. I was doing anything I could to get the train back on the track. My track. Not his track.’
She claims he sent her an ostentatious bouquet of yellow roses the next day with a note which said: ‘You have great instincts.’
She returned to the hotel the next day to confront him, taking with her a male friend for protection.
Weinstein would not meet them in the bar so she went up to his room at his request, she recalled, and scolded him over what he had done.
‘If you do what you did to me to other people you will lose your career, your reputation and your family, I promise you,’ she said she told him.
Weinstein appeared to corroborate her version of this conversation, telling The Times: ‘She very well could have said this.’
He acknowledged the Paris incident, saying that he ‘made a pass after misreading her signals’ but did not comment on the London claims – when he is alleged of throwing himself on her.
The 65-year-old, who has been taking refuge in Arizona since the scandal about him broke in October, has consistently denied the accusations of countless women who say he raped, attacked or harassed them.