Uma Thurman

The actress tells her Harvey Weinstein story

UMA THURMAN HAS HARBOURED not only anger towards notorious producer Harvey Weinstein, but also guilt. “I am one of the reasons that a young girl would walk into his room alone,” she told The New York Times in an exposé of the tale she promised in October to share when ready. On Feb. 3 she reflected that “All these lambs walked into slaughter because they were convinced nobody rises to such a position who would do something illegal to you, but they do … I stand as both a person who was subjected to it and a person who was then also part of the cloud cover.”

In a Paris hotel after their 1994 film Pulp Fiction had become a hit, Weinstein, 65 (plus infamous bathrobe), led her to a steam room before she questioned him and he got flustered. Later in London, he “tried to expose himself,” recalled Thurman, 47. “He did all kinds of unpleasant things. But he didn’t actually put his back into it and force me. You’re like an animal wriggling away, like a lizard.” The dynamic was cloudy, she said, because he “had a chokehold” on her career and then threatened to derail it. (A rep for Weinstein conceded he made a “pass” at the star after “misreading her signals in Paris” but has denied all allegations of non-consensual sex, as well as the claim he threatened her prospects.)

Her close relationship with Quentin Tarantino, 54, was derailed by a Kill Bill stunt, which the mother-of-three has since forgiven the director for. But she has not forgiven the “real perpetrators”—weinstein and fellow producers— who left her feeling like a “broken tool.” ■

TAKING THE TIME When she hinted in October that she would soon share her tale, “I used the word ‘anger’ but I was more worried about crying, to tell you the truth,” Thurman told The New York Times. “What you really saw was a person buying time.”

Harvey Weinstein (right) “assaulted me but that didn’t kill me,” said Thurman, reflecting on her work with him and director Quentin Tarantino in films like Pulp Fiction (below). In Kill Bill, Tarantino had her drive in a stunt that ended badly—but they...