Salma Hayek Feels Shame For Hiding Her Weinstein Story So Long

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Salma Hayek opened up on Oprah Winfrey’s live taping of her podcast SuperSoul Conversations this week, saying she wished she came forward with her allegations against Harvey Weinstein sooner.

“[The Times] contacted me to be a part of the first story and already by this contact, there was all this turmoil and I started crying when they asked and I ended up not doing it,” she told Oprah. “And then I felt ashamed that I was a coward. I was supporting women for two decades, and then I was a coward.”

She continued, “When the information about Harvey came out, I was ashamed I didn’t say anything. But I felt like my pain was so small compared to all the other stories.”

Salma later wrote an op-ed for the New York Times that recounted her alleged experiences with Weinstein while making Frida — claiming, among other things, that he had once threatened to kill her when she refused his advances.