Thurman speaks up

Actress claims Weinstein ‘did all kinds of unpleasant things’

AFTER months of threatening to reveal her sexual harasser, actress Uma Thurman has detailed how Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein forced himself on her in a London hotel.

She has also described how working with Quentin Tarantino on Kill Bill extracted its own form of non-sexual abuse that left her injured and irate.

In a New York Times article by Maureen Dowd, Thurman said she held agents at her former agency CAA responsible. She tells how, after the success of Pulp Fiction, “the bathrobe came out” when Weinstein asked her to meet him at his Paris hotel and then led her to the steam room, which she quickly exited.

Not long after, she met him at the Savoy Hotel in London, where she alleges, “He pushed me down. He tried to shove himself on me. He tried to expose himself. He did all kinds of unpleasant things. But he didn’t actually put his back into it and force me.”

A representative for Weinstein has responded that her claims about being physically assaulted are “untrue”.

Thurman returned to the hotel soon after and threatened to expose what he had done, but, she recounted, Weinstein said he would derail her career, leaving her shaken and upset.

Weinstein confirmed to The New York Times that he had apologised to Thurman at the time for what he called “misreading her signals”.

CAA apologised recently to clients who were “let down”.

Thurman also described how working with Tarantino on Kill Bill left her feeling devastated after a stunt driving scene Tarantino asked that she do with no stunt person. She said the seat wasn’t screwed down properly when the car ran off the road and hit a tree.

She said that after the crash she left a hospital in a neck brace with damaged knees and a concussion.

Weinstein’s rep said he was puzzled why Thurman waited 25 years to make the claims.