Lupita Nyong'o opens up about being sexually harassed in Hollywood

Piece by: Uncle Chim Tuna
Lifestyle

Lupita Nyong'o, Kenya's leading lady over in Hollywood recently opened up about her Harvey Weinstien experience.

For those of us not aware, Harvey Weinstien was the owner of one of the most successful film production companies in Hollywood and he would use that position of prestige and privilege to coerce women into parting their thighs for him, watch him play with himself amongst other sexual shenanigans.

Lupita recently gave an interview in which she opened up about her experience at the hands of the man and this was what she had to say:

On Thursday, the New York Times published an  by actress Lupita Nyong’o detailing her own harrowing experience with Harvey Weinstein, who she alleges sexually harassed her on numerous occasions. Nyong’o is the first black women to make public allegations of sexual misconduct against Weinstein. What she describes in the piece is a psychological minefield of professional-seeming interactions that will be familiar to most, if not all women, who work in a male-dominated industry, which is to say, in an industry.

Nyong’o writes that she first encountered Weinstein in 2011, as a student at the Yale School of Drama. They met at an awards ceremony in Berlin and exchanged contacts. Soon after, Weinstein convinced Nyong’o to come to his home for a film screening. He got her into his bedroom under the pretense of having something to show her, at which point he told her he’d like to give her a massage. “I panicked a little and thought quickly to offer to give him one instead,” writes Nyong’o. “It would allow me to be in control physically, to know exactly where his hands were at all times.”

You can read more of her account by clicking on this link that will lead you to the article on Jezebel.