Irish film producer Laura Madden has detailed her horrifying first experience with disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.
Speaking on a new Channel 4 documentary titled ‘Working with Weinstein’, Laura described how she first met Harvey in Dublin while ‘Into The West’ was shooting in Ireland – and he suggested that she could be his assistant.
“I think my first introduction to him was going into his hotel room. I was surprised to see room service had been ordered, there was a bottle of champagne,” she said. “He asked me to come and sit down, and he basically then told me what a wonderful job I was doing , and how he wanted me to work for him in London.”
“This was exciting, this was great, this was going to be the next step. And it very quickly turned from a conversation about a profession to about him being tired and having travelled a long way and him wanting a massage,” she explained.
“I remember feeling quite shocked by this request, and him saying ‘what’s wrong with it? That’s normal?’ And I felt I was the one who was sexualising it and I was the one who was making it a problem.
“I ended up being given a massage by him. He took my top off and started massaging me. I think all my clothes ended up coming off, and he was wearing a robe and masterbating. There were constant new requests. I remember going into the shower with him and at that point remember feeling completely out of my depth and horrified and crying,” she continued.
Then, when Harvey left the room, Laura locked herself in the bathroom and burst into tears. She said Harvey later apologised, and said that it would never happen again.
“For the eight years that I worked there it was always present. It just sat very uncomfortable. I felt like I had done something wrong. I felt more to blame than in a way he was, obviously it was his problem. But I took… I felt responsible, and humiliated by it,” she added.
Working with Weinstein is available to watch on All 4.
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