Actress opens up on sexual harassment claim in emotional interview about Harvey Weinstein

  • 27/10/2017

Three weeks after the Harvey Weinstein scandal broke, actress Ashley Judd has given an emotional first television interview about her experience.

Judd was one of the first of more than 60 women to come forward with allegations about the film mogul.

In an interview with US network ABC, she detailed in graphic terms what went on.

Similar to many other women's allegations, she says she was lured to a hotel in Beverly Hills under the auspice of a business meeting. She was then told to go to his hotel room.

It was there she says he asked to massage her and for her to give him a massage. She refused and at that point he asked her to watch him shower.

"There's this constant grooming, negotiation going on," she told ABC. "I thought no meant no. I fought with this volley of nos, which he ignored."

US correspondent Lachlan Cartwright told The AM Show the entertainment industry is in the midst of a "cultural revolution".

"It still doesn't seem it's really dawned on him the seriousness of the matter, although at the beginning of this the legal team he had were media defamation lawyers who were trying to muzzle the story.

"That legal tactic has changed - he's now hired criminal attorneys."

Police in New York, London and Los Angeles are investigating Weinstein, who has been booted out of the Weinstein Company.

He has since announced plans to sue the company, in an effort to obtain copies of personal files.

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