Madonna has said that Harvey Weinstein ‘crossed lines’ with her, adding that it's ‘good’ he is now being ‘called out and held accountable.’ The popstar has spoken about working with the film producer - who distributed her documentary Madonna: Truth or Dare through his Miramax company in the 90s - in a new interview with the New York Times.
‘Harvey crossed lines and boundaries and was incredibly sexually flirtatious and forward with me when we were working together; he was married at the time, and I certainly wasn't interested,’ she tells the newspaper. ‘I was aware that he did the same with a lot of other women that I knew in the business. And we were all, “Harvey gets to do that because he's got so much power and he's so successful and his movies do so well and everybody wants to work with him, so you have to put up with it.” So that was it.'
Speaking about the investigation which brought the allegations to light - and prompted the Me Too movement- Madonna added, ‘So when it happened, I was really like, "Finally." I wasn't cheering from the rafters because I'm never going to cheer for someone's demise. I don't think that's good karma anyway. But it was good that somebody who had been abusing his power for so many years was called out and held accountable.’ Weinstein has denied all allegations of non-consensual sex.
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