Salma Hayek details harrowing ordeal by 'monster' Harvey Weinstein

A-lister Salma Hayek on Wednesday joined the scores of actresses to accuse Harvey Weinstein, alleging that the fallen Hollywood mogul sexually harassed her, subjected her to escalating rage and as soon as threatened to kill her.

"For years, he was my monster," the Mexican-born star wrote in an essay printed in The New York Occasions, detailing the torturous manufacturing of the 2002 film Frida that ultimately earned Hayek an Oscar nomination for greatest actress.

After reaching a deal for Weinstein to pay for the rights to the film that will ultimately catapult her to family fame, the now 51-year-old actress and producer mentioned it grew to become "my flip to say no."

"No to opening the door to him in any respect hours of the night time, lodge after lodge, location after location," she wrote.

"No to me having a shower with him. No to letting him watch me take a bathe. No to letting him give me a therapeutic massage. No to letting a unadorned buddy of his give me a therapeutic massage. No to letting him give me oral intercourse. No to my getting bare with one other lady."

Weinstein's "Machiavellian rage" accompanied each refusal and as soon as included "the terrifying phrases, 'I'll kill you, do not suppose I am unable to," she mentioned.

After leaping via not possible calls for set by Weinstein to maintain the film on monitor, Hayek mentioned the sexual harassment stopped as soon as filming started "however the rage escalated."

Weinstein berated her efficiency, chided her for a job that confirmed no intercourse attraction and agreed to let her end provided that she agreed to do a intercourse scene with one other lady, and demanded "full-frontal nudity," she mentioned.

When it got here to taking pictures the scene, Hayek mentioned she suffered a nervous breakdown and needed to take a tranquilizer. When the film was completed, Weinstein allegedly mentioned it was not ok for theatrical launch and threatened to ship it straight to video.

Frida -- a critically acclaimed biopic in regards to the lifetime of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo -- ultimately received two Oscars and grossed greater than $56 million on the field workplace.

"Till there may be equality in our business, with women and men having the identical worth in each facet of it, our neighborhood will proceed to be a fertile floor for predators," Hayek wrote.

"Males sexually harassed as a result of they may. Ladies are speaking right now as a result of, on this new period, we lastly can."

Greater than 100 girls have publicly accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct starting from harassment to rape since exposes printed within the Occasions and The New Yorker in early October. The scandal has completed his profession, upended his firm and ended his marriage.

He denied Hayek's sexual abuse costs via a spokesperson.

"All the sexual allegations as portrayed by Salma will not be correct and others who witnessed the occasions have a special account of what transpired," the spokesperson mentioned.

And "by Mr Weinstein’s personal admission, his boorish habits following a screening of 'Frida' was prompted by his disappointment within the lower of the film -- and a cause he took a agency hand within the remaining edit, alongside the very expert director Julie Taymor," the spokesperson added.