Kate Beckinsale claims she had an uncomfortable hotel room encounter with Harvey Weinstein when she was just 17 _ and says she believes he couldn't remember a few years later whether he had sexually assaulted her.
The actress, 44, spoke out against the disgraced filmmaker Thursday in a lengthy Instagram post, claiming she was left feeling "uneasy" after Weinstein had her come up to his room at the Savoy Hotel for a meeting when she was still a teen.
"He opened the door in his bathrobe," Beckinsale wrote. "I was incredibly naive and young and it did not cross my mind that this older, unattractive man would expect me to have any sexual interest in him. After declining alcohol and announcing that I had school in the morning I left, uneasy but unscathed."
"A few years later he asked me if he had tried anything with me in that first meeting," the actress continued. "I realized he couldn't remember if he had assaulted me or not."
Beckinsale then accused Weinstein of shouting vulgarities and threatening her during their various interactions in the future.
"I said no to him professionally many times over the years-some of which ended up with him screaming at me calling me a c _ t and making threats, some of which made him laughingly tell people oh 'Kate lives to say no to me,'" she said.
"It speaks to the status quo in this business that I was aware that standing up for myself and saying no to things, while it did allow me to feel uncompromised in myself, undoubtedly harmed my career and was never something I felt supported by anyone other than my family," she added.
The "Pearl Harbor" actress did not specify how standing up for herself impacted her career, but went on to applaud the women who have come forward with their allegations against Weinstein in the past week.
Weinstein, 65, is accused of sexually assaulting or sexually harassing numerous women over the past three decades, with actresses Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Ashley Judd among those who say Weinstein made unwanted sexual advances toward them early in their careers.
The filmmaker is accused of raping three women in a bombshell expose published earlier this week by The New Yorker.
Weinstein told paparazzi Wednesday that he was not doing well amid the outpour of allegations.
"I'm not doing OK, but I'm trying. I gotta get help guys," he says in a video published TMZ."You know what we all make mistakes, second chance I hope."
Weinstein's wife, Georgina Chapman, revealed she's leaving him, and the board of directors of his production company, The Weinstein Company, fired him earlier this week.
