Lupita Nyong’o is the latest in a long list of women to accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment – claiming he tried to undress in front of her, and once told her that to be in the business she had to be ‘willing to do this kind of thing.’
The 34-year-old said she met the disgraced Hollywood mogul in 2011 at an awards ceremony in Berlin while she was in her final year at the Yale School of Drama.
Nyong’o wrote about her experiences with Weinstein in The New York Times, saying that after six years of shelving the encounter she decided to come out with her story.
Her encounter was strange from the beginning. She met Harvey for lunch, where he immediately ordered a vodka and diet soda.. Nyong’o said she ordered herself a juice – which lead to an uncomfortable back and forth that ended when Weinstein turned to the waiter and told him: ‘Get her what I tell you to get her. I’m the one paying the bill.’
Nyong’o said that they next went back to his home, where she met his family and Weinstein set her up to watch the film with them in his private screening room.
According to Nyong’o, Weinstein interrupted the film after just 15 minutes and lead her to his private bedroom, announcing that he wanted to give her a massage.
‘I thought he was joking at first. He was not. For the first time since I met him, I felt unsafe,’ she wrote.
The actress says she panicked and offered him one instead – writing that this would allow her to be physically in control of the situation and where he placed his hands.
But when the producer announced that he was going to remove his pants she decided she had to leave.
When she opened the door, she says he once again commented on her ‘stubbornness,’ but allowed her to leave for New Haven with his driver.
Just another account of gross horrible behavior from the monster mogul.