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*Add Salma Hayek to the long list of A-list actresses who have accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct.
The star has come forward with a horrifying account of ongoing harassment from Weinstein that began with their 2002 film “Frida.” Hayek said he pressured her for sex constantly and once irately threatened: “I will kill you, don’t think I can’t.”
In a New York Times op-ed headlined “Harvey Weinstein Is My Monster Too,” published Wednesday, Hayek explained how saying “yes” to the movie deal for her Frida Kahlo passion project quickly led to having to tell Weinstein “no.”
“No to opening the door to him at all hours of the night, hotel after hotel, location after location, where he would show up unexpectedly, including one location where I was doing a movie he wasn’t even involved with. No to me taking a shower with him. No to letting him watch me take a shower. No to letting him give me a massage. No to letting a naked friend of his give me a massage. No to letting him give me oral sex. No to my getting naked with another woman. No, no, no, no, no,” she wrote.
When Weinstein couldn’t get anywhere with sweet talk, Hayek said he resorted to “Machiavellian rage.” Once, she wrote, “in an attack of fury, he said the terrifying words, ‘I will kill you, don’t think I can’t.’”
She also described a “nervous breakdown” she had when Weinstein forced her into a full-frontal nudity sex scene with another woman. Hayek said her “body wouldn’t stop crying and convulsing.”
“I started throwing up while a set frozen still waited to shoot,” she wrote. “I had to take a tranquilizer, which eventually stopped the crying but made the vomiting worse. As you can imagine, this was not sexy, but it was the only way I could get through the scene.”
Hayek tells her story approximately two months after explosive reports in The New York Times and The New Yorker detailed decades of Weinstein’s sexual abuse. Dozens of other women have since come forward with stories about Weinstein, which sparked others to speak out about their own experience with sexual harassment.
Hayek said she hadn’t spoken up earlier because she “brainwashed” herself “into thinking that it was over and that [she] had survived.”
“I hid from the responsibility to speak out with the excuse that enough people were already involved in shining a light on my monster. … In reality, I was trying to save myself the challenge of explaining several things to my loved ones: Why, when I had casually mentioned that I had been bullied like many others by Harvey, I had excluded a couple of details. And why, for so many years, we have been cordial to a man who hurt me so deeply,” she wrote.
Hayek acknowledged the movement sparked by the Weinstein stories, writing that she is “grateful for everyone who is listening to our experiences.”
“I hope that adding my voice to the chorus of those who are finally speaking out will shed light on why it is so difficult, and why so many of us have waited so long. Men sexually harassed because they could. Women are talking today because, in this new era, we finally can.”
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