Cara Delevingneis shedding more light on the harassment she says she faced fromHarvey Weinstein.
“One of the first things Harvey Weinstein ever said to me was, ‘You will never make it in this industry as a gay woman – get a beard,’ ” Delevingne said in the interview.
Delevingne previously made similar claims against Weinstein in October 2017 after several women spoke out against the disgraced movie mogul. In a statement released to her Instagram, Delevingne detailed her alleged experience with the producer while meeting about the Weinstein Company filmTulip Feverin 2014 (the film was released in 2017).
“When I first started to work as an actress, I was working on a film and I received a call from Harvey Weinstein asking if I had slept with any of the women I was seen out with in the media,” she wrote. “It was a very odd and uncomfortable call… I answered none of his questions and hurried off the phone but before I hung up, he said to me that if I was gay or decided to be with a woman specifically in public, that I’d never get the role of a straight woman or make it as an actress in Hollywood.”
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“When I arrived I was relieved to find another woman in his room and thought immediately that I was safe,” Delevingne wrote. “He asked us to kiss and she began some sort of advances upon his direction.”
In an attempt to divert Weinstein’s attention, Delevingne said she began to sing.
“I was so nervous. After singing I said again that I had to leave,” she wrote. “He walked me to the door and stood in front of it and tried to kiss me on the lips.”
Weinstein isset to go to trialin January 2020 for charges of rape, predatory sexual assault and criminal sexual act based on the accusations of two women, according toThe Washington Post.He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
source: people.com
