Published 17:34 IST, October 9th 2019
Jennifer Aniston recalls how Harvey Weinstein 'bullied' her in 2005
The actress recalls the incident from 2005, when Weinstein forced her to wear a dress from Marchesa, his ex-partner's clothing line, in a recent interview.
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Amongst several personalities from film industry, Jennifer Aniston reveals her struggle story of being bullied by disgraced producer, Harvey Weinstein.
Actress recalls horrible incident from 2005
actress recalls incident when producer forced her to wear a dress from Marchesa, his ex-partner's clothing line. ‘friend’ actor explained incident in details in an interview, revealing how he forced her to wear a dress from his ex-wife's exclusive clothing line, Marchesa for one of film’s premiere, while y were shooting in London.
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Aniston's account referred to time she was shooting for Weinstein’s film 'Derailed', in year 2005. She also informed that it was her first ‘bullying’ experience and that Weinstein forced her despite her refusal to wear dress for premiere.
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She also claimed that she doesn’t feel threatened by him at all and added, "Well, what was he going to do? Come over here and make me wear it?!" actress later said that Weinstein has already been accused of multiple cases of sexual harassment and misconduct, and that she is t only one.
Jennifer’s comments on Weinstein’s actions towards women in industry came in wake of her upcoming show ' Morning Show' at Apple TV+, to be launched on vember 1 which focuses on a story of sexual misconduct.
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Or accusations against Weinstein
Many women from industry, apart from Aniston, opened up about ir horrible bullying experience with Weinstein, including Actor Ashley Judd. She detailed how producer allegedly sexually harassed her during a 1997 hotel meeting.
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Weinstein will undergo a trial in January next year for charges of rape, predatory sexual assault and criminal sexual act based on accusations of two women, according to Washington Post.
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Madonna also stated that she knew that Weinstein acted that way with or women in film business too.
"I was aware that he did same with a lot of or women that I knew in business. And we were all, 'Harvey gets to do that because he's got so much power and he's so successful and his movies do so well and everybody wants to work with him, so you have to put up with it.' So that was it," she added.
(Inputs from ANI)
17:11 IST, October 9th 2019