![]() ![]() Yet even as Hillary Clinton continues to speak out, Bill is conspicuously absent from the 2020 Democratic primary campaign, effectively banished to exile in the #MeToo era. His energy comes through the expressions of his mouth and his eyes. He has ‘the glint’ and he can’t help himself. On Bill Clinton, she says: “When he’s interested in a subject and he’s talking about it to a woman, there’s a different energy that comes across. You know what I mean.”Īs has become clear by now, a conversation with Simon is an exercise in six degrees of separation. Not that the men who go overboard and disrespect a woman are acting like men. But I think at this point it’s just dangerous for men to act like men. “I’m a woman and I’ve been subject to that and there was the casting couch in a number of cases in my life that I was harmed by. ![]() “Not that I want anybody to shut up or to not tell it like it is, but it also feels a little bit unnatural for me that men can’t say a flattering thing to a woman without there being a possible reckoning. “I welcome it and now I hope that it will go back to a position where things will be normalised,” she says. There aren’t as many of them as men who are in powerful positions to do it, but I’m sure that it’s probably being done by women as we speak.” She adds mischievously: “I can see 10 of them right now seducing young boys, saying that they’ll pay them.”Īnd yet she has gnawing doubts about the #MeToo movement. “Maybe the time will come when we women who have been raped financially will be on the record to talk about that because I know a lot of other women who have been screwed. It was just that you’re not supposed to talk about it. I wrote about it for this book: I wrote about the various experiences that I’ve just talked to you about, and my editors, all of whom are men, said: ‘No, don’t write about that.’ I don’t blame them for that. Photograph: Richard E Aaron/Redfernsīut the way in which Weinstein, and others, took advantage of her still rankles: “I think that stealing from one financially may be one step below sexually. Simon and James Taylor, to whom she was married for 10 years. I can just see him in all the scenes that are painted of him with the women. How did Weinstein get away with so much for so long? “Well, people obviously were so intimidated by his power and wanted to be on the receiving end of what one maybe thought of as largesse, that maybe there was goodwill behind all of his seduction. I couldn’t not do it because everybody turned around to look at me in the theatre and there I was.” Sing Anticipation.’ The guitar was out of tune and one of the strings was off it. “At the end of it, Harvey had the nerve to get this cheap guitar from somewhere and bring it to me in the theatre seat and say: ‘Sing now. ![]() Weinstein brought his film Paris, Texas for a screening attended by the president, first lady Hillary Clinton and guests including Simon. There was another incident at Camp David, the US presidential country retreat, the weekend before Bill Clinton’s impeachment hearings. “I hired musicians and scored the movie and, at the recording session, I said: ‘Well, how shall I get paid?’ He said: ‘Well, we’ll figure it out later,’ and he never followed up.” “He asked me to score a movie that his wife at the time had made, a little Japanese cartoon, and so I did it in good faith,” she recalls. Simon alleges that she, too, was abused by the disgraced Hollywood producer – not sexually, but in other humiliating ways. I don’t know that for sure, but also I’ve been abused in other ways and by some of the same people that Ronan Farrow talks about in his book.”įarrow, an investigative journalist and friend of Simon, has just published Catch and Kill, about his quest to uncover numerous sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein. ![]() Do I think it would have happened now? The awareness of it might have prevented it. “It was just an awful thing to have happened. “I think it’s changed me for ever and there was nobody around who could possibly have believed the stories I would have told,” she says. An abusive relationship continued until she was about 14. When she was seven, Simon was sexually exploited by a 16-year-old boy. Photograph: Paul R Benoit/APīoth her memoirs are searingly frank. ![]()
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