The OWN founder denies supporting the disgraced movie honcho, only willing to talk to him 'if it was for an interview.'
- Oct 14, 2017
AceShowbiz - Oprah Winfrey sets the record straight on the rumors suggesting that she supports Harvey Weinstein amid his sexual harassment scandal. Her representative admits that Weinstein's camp reached out to her but the OWN founder was only willing to meet him for an interview.
"Oprah has not spoken to Harvey Weinstein directly. Someone from his team reached out to her to see if she would talk to him, and she said she would if it was for an interview," her spokesperson says. "She was only interested if he'd look in the mirror and give her the honest, bone marrow truth."
The former daytime queen previously commented on the Weinstein scandal, "I've been processing the accounts of Harvey Weinstein's behavior and haven't been able to find the words to articulate the magnitude of the situation."
She quoted filmmaker James Schamus: "This is the story of one predator and his many victims; but it is also a story about an overwhelming systemic enabling, and until that story is fully told we will fall far short of stopping future depredations on a similar scale."
Harvey Weinstein has been facing numerous accusation from actresses and female assistants. His victims continued to grow. They included Rose McGowan, Ashley Judd, Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cara Delevingne, Kate Beckinsale, Eva Green, and Claire Forlani.
In addition to making unwanted advances on actresses, he allegedly forced them to help promote Marchesa, the fashion brand created by his now-estranged wife Georgina Chapman. He reportedly threatened Sienna Miller and Felicity Huffman to wear the label at red carpet events.
Weinstein's fall from grace dragged The Weinstein Company down with him. Amazon has already cut ties with the studio, calling off David O. Russell project and moving forward with "The Romanoffs" without TWC involvement. TWC also might lose an adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway musical "In the Heights" and a Quentin Tarantino documentary.
