Myleene Klass recalls the horrifying moment Harvey Weinstein offered her a sex contract to make her famous and reveals her fear of being unable to escape his advances

Daily Mail​

5 days ago

Myleene Klass has recalled the horrifying moment Harvey Weinstein offered her a sex contract in a bid to make her famous.
The singer, 47, who has made these allegations in the past, once again touched on the uncomfortable subject during a candid interview on Paul C Brunson's We Need To Talk podcast.
Speaking to Paul, Myleene told how she met the disgraced Hollywood mogul, now 73, during the 2010 Cannes Film Festival where working as a reporter for CNN in Cannes and was later invited by him to lunch, where he was said to have propositioned her.
She told how the shock encounter left her 'utterly devastated' and fearing how she'd escape his advances.
The Oscar-winning producer's years of sexual misconduct spanning more than 80 accusers was exposed via a series of stories in the autumn of 2017, eventually spurring sex assault prosecutions and contributed to the rise of the #MeToo movement across the globe.
She said of meeting Harvey: 'I interviewed him because I was in Cannes, I was working for CNN, as I did for nine years. We were trying to show, because it was a behind the scenes working, we were trying to show how do you get a movie from its infancy of a say I don't know an inception or a script to the big screen.
'And then I met Harvey at a party and I did a mini interview with him in the press run and then after that he came and found me and I gave him the bare bones of what we were covering.
'To the point that I was so convinced that we were going to have a work meeting. We were going to actually have it as an interview that I even said, "should I bring the crew? or is this the meeting for you know the preliminaries just to pad out what it is we're going to be discussing?" and he's like, "It's fine don't bring the crew"
The former Hear'Say star then went on to reveal that during her one-to-one interaction with Harvey, he laid out his intentions with her, and when asked by Paul to clarify, she said: 'Well, it's "you have sex with me and I'll make you famous". '
'And I said, "I'm already famous in the areas I want to be.'
She then recalled how he listed all the movies she could be in and all the actresses she could be like, before she once again declined his offer, telling him: 'Well, I don't want to be in movies.'
Myleene then confirmed to stunned host Paul that Weinstein was very clear in what he was offering, before stating: 'I believe every woman that came forward 'cause I sat there. I was utterly devastated 'cause I didn't know if I was going to get out.'
When asked how she escaped, Myleene became emotional as she shared: 'I said we'd be in touch. I made it very businesslike, I suppose. I just I got out. Lunch finished and I got out.'
During her one-to-one interaction with Harvey, he laid out his intentions with her, and when asked by Paul to clarify, she said: 'Well, it's "you have sex with me and I'll make you famous"'
Myleene then confirmed to stunned host Paul that Weinstein was very clear in what he was offering, before stating: 'I believe every woman that came forward 'cause I sat there. I was utterly devastated 'cause I didn't know if I was going to get out'
The classical star added: 'Any woman would tell you it's fight or flight, isn't it. any woman wo's been in that position where someone is being predatory, they don't have to come with a weapon. We feel it in our gut, were know immediately when we're in danger.'
Myleene previously spoke about the encounter in 2017, when she named Harvey as the man who had offered her a 'sex contract' over lunch by whispering his name in Alan Titchmarsh's ear during a TV interview.
Myleene originally refused to name Weinstein as the man responsible during an interview on The Alan Titchmarsh show, but when pushed on his identity she leaned over and whispered his name in the gardener's ear.
Titchmarsh began the interview in 2010 by saying: 'You're extraordinarily good-looking; you're very desirable.'
He then asked: 'What's this I read in the paper today about this Hollywood star propositioning you across a table?'
She then explained about 'this contract that was offered to me once by a - I've got to be careful how I say it - but somebody very well known in Hollywood.'
When Titchmarsh asked if it was a 'big Hollywood star', Myleene says yes.
She said when she was doing a 'pre-interview interview', a 'PA arrived, and two bodyguards, and some other guy - and I just felt, This doesn't feel very natural, and he then proffered a contract.'
Weinstein's personal assistant, she said, was holding the contract while Weinstein explained its contents.
At one point in the interview she appeared to almost pronounce an 'H' before stopping herself and stressing: 'I'm really trying not just to say the name'.
Titchmarsh then asked about the nature of the contract, joking: 'Was he suggesting an extra-murial [sic] affair?'
She replied: 'Yes, he was. Bingo.'
When Titchmarsh pressed her to reveal Weinstein's identity, Klass refused, explaining: 'I don't know what good would come from it.'
But she then whispered it into the former Ground Force presenter's ear, to which he replied: 'No!'
He added: 'I'd never have thought it of him. Really? Gosh.'
Klass then said she told him, 'I'm not that kind of girl - but we were only on starters so I thought, I'm going to miss dessert now - ruined my dinner!'
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