You know when you see someone you really don’t like around town, and you promise to do that ‘catch-up drink’ soon just to get rid of them.

Now imagine that instead of pestering you for a coffee, the person in question is a bona fide sex pest who wants to sexually assault you.

Enter Ashley Judd, cutting a bargain with Harvey Weinstein to escape from his hotel room. She was talking about an incident that took place in 1997, when she thought she was going to a breakfast meeting.

The Guardian on what happened next:

Once in the room, the actor said he began pressuring her to give and receive massages and to watch him shower.

She said: “There’s this constant grooming, negotiation going on. I thought no meant no. I fought with this volley of noes, which he ignored.

“Maybe he heard them as maybe, maybe he heard them as yeses. Maybe they turned him on.”

In a bid to get out of the bathroom, Judd said she resorted to striking a deal with him.

She told Sawyer: “He just kept coming at me with all this other stuff. Finally, I just said ‘When I win an Oscar in one of your movies, OK?’

“He said ‘When you get nominated’. I said ‘No, when I win an Oscar’. And then I just fled.”

Then there’s this picture, which she also addressed in the interview:

She says anyone who tries to use this as proof that they were tjommies is very misguided:

“No. That’s deny, attack, reverse the order of offender and victim.”

In another photo from that same party, Weinstein is pictured holding Judd’s hand. She said: “I hoped I didn’t pass him, but I did, and he obviously grabbed my hand.

“The look on my face is abject terror. I can see it in my eyes. It’s very gross. It’s very gross. I feel for that 28, 29-year-old woman.”

I don’t know what word comes to mind when you think ‘Harvey Weinstein’, but ‘gross’ is right up there for me.

[source:guardian]