When Harvey Weinstein was nixed out of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences due to his multiple sexual assault charges, it created a huge firestorm. Now, according to some members, they’re beginning to regret it.

“Harvey opened the floodgates,” one male Academy member said to Page Six. “Now the Academy’s drowning in a tide of s—t. They don’t know what hit them.”

More stories of Hollywood’s elite preying on women and men surfaced, including from Kevin Spacey, Dustin Hoffman, Brett Ratner, Ben Affleck, and more.

“[We] can’t regret [kicking out Harvey] because [we] didn’t really have a choice,” said one male member of AMPAS’ board of governors. “Some members were quite vehement. But [we] didn’t have time to really weigh out the repercussions.”

“They didn’t give themselves time to plot out how to deal with this going forward,” said one prominent female AMPAS member. “Kathleen Kennedy [producer of the ‘Star Wars’ series] and some other female governors panicked and felt compelled to act. They thought [Weinstein] could hurt AMPAS’ cred. Some of them did admit this was a slippery slope. But I don’t think they imagined how slippery. It’s definitely caused some problems and fights among the board members.”

Read more at Page Six.