Following Harvey Weinstein’s prison sentence yesterday, actress Kate Beckinsale took to Instagram to recount a terrifying experience she once had with the convicted sexual abuser back in 2001.
In the lengthy caption, she begins by stating that the photos were taken on October 5 2001, at the premiere for her film Serendipity.
She says that she and the cast did not want to go ahead with the premiere given that it was less than a month after the tragic 9/11 attack, but Weinstein insisted.
“We all refused to go because holding a premiere mere weeks after 9/11 with the city still smoking felt like the most insensitive, tone deaf, disrespectful idea possible. But Harvey insisted,” she claimed.
“We flew into New York and somehow got through it,” she continued. “The next morning Harvey called me and asked if I would like to bring my less than two year old daughter to his house for a playdate with his similar aged daughter I said ok. I turned up and he immediately called for his nanny to take the babies to another room to play. I went to go with them and he said ‘No, you wait here.’”
“The minute the door closed he started screaming ‘you stupid fucking CUNT, you CUNT you ruined my premiere.’ I had no idea what he was talking about and started to shake.”
She continued, “He said, ‘If I am throwing a red carpet you get in a tight dress, you shake your ass you shake your tits you do not go down it looking like a fucking lesbian you stupid fucking cunt.’ The shock made me burst into tears. I tried to say ‘Harvey, the city is on fire, people are still looking for their relatives none of us even felt the premiere was appropriate much less coming out dressed like it’s a bachelor party.’”
“He said, ‘I don’t care – it’s my fucking premiere and if I want pussy on the red carpet that’s what I get.’”
She added that he was “Screaming. Livid.”
After he was done berating her, she says that she “managed to get myself and my child out of there.”
She continues, “Yes that was one of many experiences I had that there was no recourse for, and falls under no felony.But I WAS punished for it, and for other instances where I said no to him for years, insidiously and seeming irreversibly.”
Read the entire caption via the Instagram link below.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B9ngeZOASEN/
