Salma Hayek 'ashamed' she wasn't part of original Weinstein expose

However, the Wild Wild West star said that for years she felt too ashamed to come forward and talk about Weinstein's sexual harassment, and was anxious about going public because she didn't want her 10-year-old daughter Valentina to know.

Unfortunately for Hayek, though, that sense of solidarity among other women was accompanied by a sense of personal shame, as she told Oprah Winfrey on the Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations podcast in NY on Wednesday, in what was at first meant to be a conversation about the #MeToo movement at large.

She has previously revealed in the NY times that Weinstein, who is accused of raping, sexually abusing and harassing dozens of actresses, once threatened to kill her and had pressured her into filming a nude sex scene with a female co-star. "I started crying because (I had PTSD)", she said, according to Entertainment Tonight. "But I felt like my pain was so small compared to all the other stories". Hayek said that considering her incident with Weinstein took place more than 15 years ago, she had opportunities to expose him but decided not to. He denied the allegations at the time, but Salma went into further detail about her experiences with the producer during Wednesday's discussion. "[I feel] true disgust at the director who assaulted me when I was 16 years old and anger at the agents and the producers who made me feel that silence was a condition of my employment".

"I didn't know there was so many women". I earned it with blood.

Weinstein propositioned Hayek multiple times throughout her time on the film, asking for massages, oral sex and naked showers. I went, 'Yes, no, yes, no, yes, no. It's a feeling many women are only just now discovering they're capable of expressing, complicated by the difficulty of learning how to do so productively while simultaneously experiencing the re-traumatization that comes with revisiting an abusive experience, whether by choice or not. When her piece was published, Hayek's close friend Penelope Cruz was "furious at me because I never told her anything". "I thought, 'There's no point for me to talk because it happens to everyone". I thought I was the only one.

'He told me, 'I'm going to kill you, " she told Winfrey on Wednesday. "All these efforts of every single one of you, they pile up until there is an explosion".

"By Mr Weinstein's own admission, his boorish behaviour following a screening of "Frida" was prompted by his disappointment in the cut of the movie".

ABC News reached out to Weinstein on Thursday regarding Hayek's comments to Winfrey. This was because, in her words, Weinstein "had a lot of respect for me".

Salma Hayek Pinault, left, and Oprah Winfrey onstage during Oprah's Super Soul Conversations at the Apollo Theater in New York City. "He was very proud of her Best Actress Academy Award nomination for Frida and continues to support her work".

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