{"id":363357,"date":"2017-10-20T08:03:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T08:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=363357"},"modified":"2017-10-20T08:03:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T08:03:13","slug":"lupita-nyongo-accuses-harvey-weinstein-of-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/lupita-nyongo-accuses-harvey-weinstein-of-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"Lupita Nyong’o accuses Harvey Weinstein of harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"
Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o has accused movie mogul Harvey Weinstein of harassment.<\/p>\n
She spoke out in a\u00a0New York Times\u00a0article, saying she was lured to his room under false pretences.<\/p>\n
He then said that he wanted to give her a massage, she claimed, saying she initially thought he was joking.<\/p>\n
Weinstein faces allegations of sexual misconduct and assault from dozens of women. He has “unequivocally” denied having “non-consensual sex”.<\/p>\n
Nyong’o, who won a best supporting actress Oscar for 12 Years a Slave, was a drama student at the time of the alleged incident.<\/p>\n
She said she had been invited to his family home in Connecticut, apparently to watch a film, shortly after they first met in 2011.<\/p>\n
He then insisted that she leave the screening room with him, she claimed.<\/p>\n
‘I felt unsafe’<\/strong><\/p>\n Nyong’o, 34, wrote: “Harvey led me into a bedroom – his bedroom – and announced that he wanted to give me a massage.<\/p>\n “I thought he was joking at first. He was not. For the first time since I met him, I felt unsafe.<\/p>\n “I panicked a little and thought quickly to offer to give him one instead: it would allow me to be in control physically, to know exactly where his hands were at all times.”<\/p>\n She said she was trying to keep a “semblance of professionalism” in the “bizarre” circumstances, as she had studied body work and massage while at Yale.<\/p>\n She added that she was trying to “buy time”, to “figure out how to extricate” herself from the situation.<\/p>\n