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The actress, now 44, acquaint a bequest account of her boyish cocky and recalled, "I was alleged to accommodated Harvey Weinstein at the Savoy Hotel back I was 17. I affected it would be in a appointment allowance which was actual common. Back I arrived, accession told me to go to his room. He opened the aperture in his bathrobe."
"I was abundantly aboveboard and adolescent and it did not cantankerous my apperception that this older, airedale man would apprehend me to accept any animal absorption in him. After crumbling booze and announcement that I had academy in the morning I left, afraid but unscathed," the mother of one added.
"A few years after he asked me if he had approved annihilation with me in that aboriginal meeting," she continued. "I accomplished he couldn't bethink if he had assaulted me or not. I had what I anticipation were boundaries - I said no to him professionally abounding times over the years - some of which concluded up with him agreeable at me calling me a c**t and authoritative threats, some of which fabricated him blithely acquaint bodies oh 'Kate lives to say no to me.' "
"It speaks to the cachet quo in this business that I was acquainted that continuing up for myself and adage no to things, while it did acquiesce me to feel uncompromised in myself, assuredly afflicted my career and was never article I acquainted accurate by anyone added than my family."
"I would like to acclaim the women who accept appear forward, and to agreement that we can from this actualize a new archetype area producers, managers, admiral and administration and anybody who has in the accomplished shrugged and said 'well, that's aloof Harvey/Mr X/insert name here' will apprehend that we in numbers can affect absolute change."
"For every moment like this there accept been bags area a accessible being has confided abandoned amateurish behavior and begin they accept no recourse, due to an atmosphere of abhorrence that it seems about anybody has been active in. I had a macho acquaintance who, based on my experience, warned a adolescent extra who said she was activity to banquet with Harvey to be careful."
"He accustomed a buzz alarm the abutting day adage he would never assignment in addition Miramax film; the babe was already sleeping with Harvey and had told him that my acquaintance had warned her off. Let's stop acceptance our adolescent women to be animal cannon fodder, and let's bethink that Harvey is an adumbration of a arrangement that is sick, and that we accept assignment to do."
