Hollywood star hopes something positive will come from scandal

George Clooney has said it is important something positive comes out of the Harvey Weinstein scandal and revealed his wife Amal has faced sexual harassment at work.

The Hollywood star, who has been married to the human rights lawyer since 2014, said he is hopeful something will change after the allegations of harassment and abuse against the producer.

He told US entertainment news show Entertainment Tonight: “Moving forward, we have to make sure that now there has to be something good that’s going to come out of all of this – that women can feel safer in talking about these situations, and in doing so, that it makes it much harder for men who would behave like this to do it, (knowing) that they’ll get outed.

The Ocean’s Eleven star said Weinstein has previously alluded to him that he had relationships with women who were not his wife.

He said: “Harvey would talk about women that he’d, you know, gone out with. I didn’t really necessarily believe that because to believe that would be to believe bad things about actresses that I know and like, and I didn’t really buy into that.

“But I will say that somebody knew and if there was a reporter that sat on a story for years and didn’t write it, I want to know why because I would have liked to have known these stories. And if there was a newspaper or website that had this information that investigated it, I’d like to see how much ad money they got from Miramax or from the Weinstein Company.”

Clooney added the issue is not just a problem in Hollywood, saying it exists in politics and in his wife’s profession.