Salma Hayek says Weinstein forced her to perform lesbian sex scene, turning ‘Frida’ set into a nightmare

In one of the most vivid accounts yet of Harvey Weinstein’s alleged abuse and harassment, Salma Hayek says the disgraced movie mogul turned the making of her 2002 passion project, the Frida Kahlo biopic Frida, into a nightmare after the actress refused Weinstein’s relentless advances.

“For years, he was my monster,” Hayek wrote in an op-ed published Wednesday by The New York Times.

Her refusals – of massages, showers and sex – enraged him, she wrote. “I don’t think he hated anything more than the word ‘no,’” wrote Hayek.

Hayek, who regularly starred in films released by Weinstein’s Miramax in the 1990s, credited Weinstein with helping her start her career. But she said that the movie mogul would turn up at her door “at all hours of the night, hotel after hotel, location after location.”

When Hayek brought Frida, which she was producing, to Miramax to distribute, Weinstein made outrageous demands as payback.

Hayek said he insisted on rewrites, more financing and, most heinously to her, forced her to perform a lesbian sex scene with full frontal nudity. He even threatened to kill her, she said.