Salma Hayek says she was surprised how emotional it was writing her 2017 op-ed about Harvey Weinstein, who she said threatened to kill her while filming “Frida” in 2002.
“Emotionally, I was shocked by how much [writing that piece] affected me,” she told Town & Country magazine. “Because I’m strong, and I thought I was done with that whole story. It really haunted me.”
In the op-ed published by the New York Times, Hayek wrote she was excited to work with Weinstein, but quickly realized he was “a monster.” She said she refused several things, including oral sex and her getting naked with another woman. “And with every refusal came Harvey’s Machiavellian rage,” she wrote. The experience culminated in Weinstein allegedly threatening to kill her, she claims.
Weinstein previously responded to Hayek’s allegations by saying, in part, “All of the sexual allegations as portrayed by Salma are not accurate and others who witnessed the events have a different account of what transpired.”
Hayek says her husband, billionaire François-Henri Pinault, was supportive of her decision to write the article.
“He was upset that I didn’t tell him before [about the alleged harassment],” she said.
Hayek, who wed Pinault in 2009, says he’s “the best husband in the world. I get to be who I am with him, and I don’t feel that somebody tries to limit me.”
However, she won’t reveal how the pair, who have one daughter together, met.
“It’s such a romantic, amazing story, but it is mine. I don’t want to vulgarize it by making it into a story to make myself interesting.”
She said since marrying Pinault, the CEO of Kering, the parent company behind Gucci and YSL, people have become intimidated by her.
“A lot of people are very shocked that I married who I married. And some people are even intimidated now by me,” she said, adding, “But it’s another way of showing racism. They can’t believe this Mexican ended up in the life that she has, and they’re uncomfortable around me.”
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