IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Times story is “saturated with false and defamatory statements.” Bloom more gently poured cold water on the report, saying there have been some complaints against Weinstein but “not as many as” as the Times said. She added that some of the allegations were “incorrect” and that eyewitnesses had “a different perspective.”
“Some of the allegations which I have read are, ‘He told me I had a nice dress on.’ ‘He told me I looked cute without my glasses.’ Probably he shouldn’t be saying things like that in the workplace. Does that rise to the level of sexual harassment, legally? No, it doesn’t,” she said. “He does not admit to sexual harassment when he does admit to his misconduct.”
Bloom said Weinstein has anger problems and said he can be intimidating. She said he “knows he has to work on that” and praised him for acknowledging that he “hurt people.” But she said that unlike at Fox News when women came forward with allegations of sexual abuse, Weinstein was not “trashing them, sending private investigators to dig up dirt on them, humiliating them.”
“I salute any woman that comes forward with complaints of sexual harassment you know? Harvey has had to learn. This is not an easy time for him either. Probably nobody has sympathy for him right now and that’s fine. But this is a guy who has thrown away the old playbook of let’s attack the women, let’s dig up dirt on their past, let’s humiliate them, let’s fight. He’s not doing any of that.”