Harvey said he ‘could kill me’

ACTOR Salma Hayek claims she was stalked by Harvey Weinstein for a decade, forced to do a lesbian scene with friend Ashley Judd to appease him and he once threatened to kill her.

Hayek wrote in the New York Times that once he said he would green light her passion project, Frida, for which she was nominated for an Oscar, she had to start saying no to him.

“No to me taking a shower with him. No to letting him watch me take a shower. No to letting him give me a massage. No to letting a naked friend of his give me a massage. No to letting him give me oral sex. No to my getting naked with another woman. No, no, no, no, no,” she said.

“With every refusal came Harvey’s Machiavellian rage. The range of his persuasion tactics went from sweet-talking me to that one time when, in an attack of fury, he said the terrifying words: ‘I will kill you, don’t think I can’t.’ ”

She said he tried to take Frida from her and cast another actor unless she met a list of demands attached to the film, including securing four prominent stars, including Judd, Edward Norton and Geoffrey Rush.

Hayek said she had poured so much into Frida that when Weinstein demanded she do a lesbian sex scene with Judd – one of the first women to go public with allegations of sexual harassment against Weinstein – she felt compelled to say yes so as not to see the project scrapped.

“I arrived on the set the day we were to shoot the scene that I believed would save the movie. And for the first and last time in my career, I had a nervous breakdown: My body began to shake uncontrollably, my breath was short and I began to cry and cry, unable to stop, as if I were throwing up tears,” she said.

“Since those around me had

NO TO LETTING HIM GIVE ME A MASSAGE. NO TO LETTING A NAKED FRIEND OF HIS GIVE ME A MASSAGE. SALMA HAYEK

no knowledge of my history of Harvey, they were very surprised by my struggle that morning. It was not because I would be naked with another woman. It was because I would be naked with her for Harvey Weinstein. But I could not tell them then.

“I started throwing up while on set. I had to take a tranquilliser, which eventually stopped the crying but made the vomiting worse.

“As you can imagine, this was not sexy, but it was the only way I could get through the scene,” she said.

Hayek says Weinstein never cast her as the lead in a movie again despite Frida getting six Oscar nominations.