Salma Hayek's #MeToo moment

LOS ANGELES: One of Hollywood's most dazzling leading actresses, Salma Hayek on Wednesday  revealed about Harvey Weinstein's heinous  act of sexually harassing and threatening her to kill.

Hayek, 51, published a harrowing op-ed in the US newspaper on Wednesday entitled "Harvey Weinstein is my monster too", explaining the abuse she was subjected to while trying to produce the 2002 biopic of Frida Kahlo.

"Harvey Weinstein was a passionate cinephile, a risk taker, a patron of talent in film, a loving father and a monster," she writes. "For years, he was my monster."

She detailed what she faced, writing; "No to opening the door to him at all hours of the night, hotel after hotel, location after location, where he would show up unexpectedly, including one location where I was doing a movie he wasn’t even involved with”.

"No to me taking a shower with him. No to letting him watch me take a shower. No to letting him give me a massage,” she added.

"No to letting him give me oral sex. No to my getting naked with another woman.

After repeatedly turning him down she said he flew into a terrifying fury, telling her on one occasion: “I will kill you, don’t think I can’t.”

She also described how Weinstein made a series of increasingly impossible demands for her to fulfill or else he would withdraw his support for the film. She claimed that the only reason she avoided being raped by Weinstein was because he knew they had mutual friends in Quentin Tarantino and George Clooney.

More than 75 women have so far come forward to accuse him of harassment, abuse and rape - among them Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Beckinsale and Lupita Nyong'o.