Minka Kelly Says Harvey Weinstein Asked Her To Be His Secret "Girlfriend" And Promised Her A Lavish Lifestyle
Posted on Fri Oct 13th, 2017 11:30am PDT By X17 Staff
Another day, another accuser.
Minka Kelly is the latest celebrity to come forward with a creepy story about Harvey Weinstein, and she probably won't be the last! The Friday Night Lights star didn't have quite as bad an experience as, say Rose McGowan, but she was still in a very uncomfortable situation with the disgraced studio exec.
"I met Harvey at an industry party. The following day, my agent said he wanted to see me for a general meeting. The location was set for his hotel room. I wasn’t comfortable with going to his room & said so. The following day, we sat down with an assistant in the hotel restaurant. He bullshit me for 5 minutes re: movies he could put me in, then asked the assistant to excuse us," she wrote on Instagram.
"As she walked away, he said, "I know you were feeling what I was feeling when we met the other night†and then regaled me with offers of a lavish life filled with trips around the world on private planes etc. IF I would be his girlfriend. Or, “We could just keep this professional.†All I knew was not to offend this very powerful man and to get out of the situation as quickly as possible. I told him while flattered, I'd like to keep things professional. He said “Fine. I trust you won't tell anyone about this.†I said “Of course not. Thank you so much for taking the time to meet with me,†- the only way I could think to shut it down gracefully and excuse myself," she continued.
"I immediately told my agent what happened. We marveled at his audacity, reinforced my instinct not to offend him & laughed at how glad I was to get out of there. Neither of us were that surprised as this wasn’t far off from the day-to-day bullshit of being an actress. I'm sorry for obliging his orders to be complicit in protecting his behavior, which he obviously knew was wrong or he wouldn’t have asked me not to tell anyone in the first place. For making him feel ok about the gross things he was saying and that I felt my only route was to say I was flattered. For not insisting that my reps never allow anyone to take a meeting in a hotel room (with him or anyone else), because I honestly don’t know what might have happened if I’d just showed up as originally scheduled," she concluded, before issuing a call to action.
Is there anyone he didn't sexually harass in Hollywood?! At this point, that would a huge story!