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Salma Hayek powerfully detailed how Harvey Weinstein was her 'monster' in a New York Times piece
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AS MANY PEOPLE expected, we still haven’t heard the last of the Weinstein allegations.
Salma Hayek has become one of around 50 women to speak out about Harvey Weinstein. In a powerful essay with the New York Times, she opened on this line:
The actress, who previously said that Weinstein had referred to her as a “ball-breaker“, went on to say that she had ‘brained-washed’ herself into thinking she had made peace with what had happened to her.
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That was until reporters asked her to speak about how she was treated by Harvey Weinstein when all of the allegations began to come out. When press approached her, she says:
Hayek realised that it wasn’t that simple. She wasn’t avoiding responsibility, but rather just afraid of opening up to her family and friends about the experience.
So, she told herself that her story was nothing but a ‘drop in the ocean of sorrow and confusion’.
Hayek says that enough time has passed for her to speak out. She says that she is ‘inspired by those who had the courage to speak out, especially in a society that elected a president who has been accused of sexual harassment and assault by more than a dozen women’.
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When Hayek met Harvey Weinstein, the thought of a Mexican actress making it in Hollywood was ‘unimaginable’ to her.
The actress believes that there is nothing in the world that Harvey Weinstein hated more than the word “no”. Harvey would call her furiously in the middle of the night and physically dragged her out of the opening gala of her film Frida.
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He did everything he could to undermine her and discourage her while she was working on this film, telling her that she had no sex appeal so nobody would bother going to see it.
He even threatened to kill her, telling her “I will kill you, don’t think I can’t.”
She ended her essay by saying:
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