I have felt sick in the pit of my stomach.
Not long after, she was invited to a private screening at his home.
“I thought he was joking at first,” Nyong’o wrote.
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“He was not.
For the first time since I met him, I felt unsafe.
Before long he said he wanted to take off his pants.
I told him not to do that and informed him that it would make me extremely uncomfortable.
Two weeks ago a bombshellNew York Timesexposereported “decades” of alleged sexual harassment by Weinstein.
“I left feeling that perhaps he had learned my boundaries and was going to respect them.”
That turned out not to be the case, though.
“Before the starters arrived, he announced: ‘Let’s cut to the chase.
“I was stunned.
I told him I preferred to eat in the restaurant.
He told me not to be so naive.
When she declined his offer, the meeting quickly ended.
“We are done here,” Weinstein declared.
‘you could leave.”
To her, it “felt like both a threat and a reassurance at the same time.”
