The actress posted a powerful response to Harvey Weinstein’s prison sentence.
Kate shared her own allegations of harassment by Harvey in 2017. In an Instagram post she added on Wednesday, she recalled the premiere of her Weinstein-produced film “Serendipity” back in 2001. At that time, the mood following 9/11 was somber.
“These photos were taken at the premiere of Serendipity on October 5, 2001. We all refused to go because holding a premiere mere weeks after 9/11 with the city still smoking felt like the most insensitive, tone deaf, disrespectful idea possible. But Harvey insisted. We flew into New York and somehow got through it,” she explained.
Weinstein verbally abused her because she wore a pantsuit to the premiere.
“The next morning, Harvey called me and asked if I would like to bring my less than two-year-old daughter to his house for a playdate with his similar aged daughter, and I said ok. I turned up, and he immediately called for his nanny to take the babies to another room to play,” the actress wrote. “I went to go with them, and he said ‘No, you wait here.’
She then said that “the minute the door closed,” he cursed at her and called her a crude epithet, adding that she “ruined” his event.
“The shock made me burst into tears. I tried to say ‘ Harvey, the city is on fire, people are still looking for their relatives none of us even felt the premiere was appropriate much less coming out dressed like it’s a bachelor party.”
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Kate called him as “livid” and a “bully.”
“I managed to get myself and my child out of there, and yes, that was one of many experiences I had that there was no recourse for,” Beckinsale wrote.
Hearing that he has gone to prison for 23 years was a “huge relief,” she said, and added, “I hope and pray that we as an industry can start to actually outlaw all abuses of power and expose them and eliminate them, for all genders, forever.”
