Molly Ringwald Shares Her Own Harvey Weinstein Story In New Essay — Wow!
Iconic 1980s superstar Molly Ringwald has come out with her own Harvey Weinstein story in an essay called “All the Other Harveys,” where she tells her first and only experience working with Weinstein on 1990’s Strike It Back.
Given that Molly was already a star, she said she wasn’t “wasn’t cajoled into a taxi” or forced “to turn down giving or getting a massage.” Instead, she witnessed his inappropriate behavior in other ways.
“My lawyer called to tell me that I had been denied the [gross] percentage owed to me,” she writes. “She asked if it was O.K. if she went after the Weinsteins. I ended up suing them for the money, which I got, and I never worked with Harvey or the company again.”
Molly also shared a story about when a director asked her to wear a dog collar at an audition: “I don’t even know if the collar ever made it on me, because that’s the closest I’ve had to an out-of-body experience,” she says. “I’d like to think that I just walked out, but, more than likely, there’s an old VHS tape, disintegrating in a drawer somewhere … I sobbed in the parking lot, and when I got home and called my agent to tell him what happened, he laughed and said, ‘Well, I guess that’s one for the memoirs…’”
She also speaks about an unnamed director (who has since been identified as former Dreamworks chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg) who, after she appeared on the cover of Movieline magazine, said: “I wouldn’t know [Molly Ringwald] if she sat on my face.”
Read more at The New Yorker.