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Aishwarya’s Manager Opens Up About The Time Harvey Weinstein Wanted To Meet Ash ‘Alone’

bySusri Sahu
13th October 2017
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The world, as we speak, is reading about Harvey Weinstein and turning in disgust over his history of sexual abuse and harassment. But only hindsight to the entire fiasco is that the voice opposing the media mogul is growing stronger and is getting unifies as women come out to share their story of exploitation.

Earlier we told you how Angelina Jolie and Gwenyth Paltrow faced abuse at the nascent stage of their respective careers. Now, another actress, Cara Delevingne has come to the fore to report the sexual offender.

In fact, she even took to Instagram to reveal the ordeal she had to go through when she has just started working in the showbiz. 

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When I first started to work as an actress, i was working on a film and I received a call from‎ Harvey Weinstein asking if I had slept with any of the women I was seen out with in the media. It was a very odd and uncomfortable call….i answered none of his questions and hurried off the phone but before I hung up, he said to me that If I was gay or decided to be with a woman especially in public that I'd never get the role of a straight woman or make it as an actress in Hollywood. A year or two later, I went to a meeting with him in the lobby of a hotel with a director about an upcoming film. The director left the meeting and Harvey asked me to stay and chat with him. As soon as we were alone he began to brag about all the actresses he had slept with and how he had made their careers and spoke about other inappropriate things of a sexual nature. He then invited me to his room. I quickly declined and asked his assistant if my car was outside. She said it wasn't and wouldn't be for a bit and I should go to his room. At that moment I felt very powerless and scared but didn't want to act that way hoping that I was wrong about the situation. When I arrived I was relieved to find another woman in his room and thought immediately I was safe. He asked us to kiss and she began some sort of advances upon his direction. I swiftly got up and asked him if he knew that I could sing. And I began to sing….i thought it would make the situation better….more professional….like an audition….i was so nervous. After singing I said again that I had to leave. He walked me to the door and stood in front of it and tried to kiss me on the lips. I stopped him and managed to get out of the room. I still got the part for the film and always thought that he gave it to me because of what happened. Since then I felt awful that I did the movie. I felt like I didn't deserve the part. I was so hesitant about speaking out….I didn't want to hurt his family. I felt guilty as if I did something wrong. I was also terrified that this sort of thing had happened to so many women I know but no one had said anything because of fear.

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While every other media publication covered and gave her story the medium to reach more than just her followers, a rather shocking revelation surfaced at the comments section of a Variety report. 

The revelation stated that Harvey Weinstein was once upon a time desperate to meet Bollywood beauty, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and it was made by the talent manager, Simone Sheffield who managed Ash’s work in Hollywood. 

And she did so by leaving a rather descriptive comment that will leave your jaws dropped. 

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Let me spell it out for you. She wrote…

“I use to manage Indian actress Aishwarya Rai. While dealing with Harvey I found it comical how hard he tried to get Aishwarya alone. But he was a pig… looked and acted like a “big bully pig”….He asked me to leave the meeting numerous times and I politely declined. When we were leaving his office he cornered me and said: “what do I have to do to get her alone?” I told him to “kiss my black ass”.
When Ash and I returned to our hotel, I sent Harvey a steel pig trough filled with DIET COKE as a thank you gift for the meeting. Yes, we did do business and Yes, he eventually threatened me. Told me I’d never work in this business, blah blah blah….what I said to him I can’t print. But you can be sure, I never gave him the opportunity to even breathe on my client.
Fox News. Weinstein. The President. Such abuses have gone on way before these creeps and will sadly continue until women feel empowered and protected enough to speak out.
They say there’s strength in numbers…perhaps. BUT it takes only one brave soul to take the first stand. With social media as your platform, that one brave soul will lead an army, in no time.
Brava Ladies….don’t hold back – THE TRUTH. Protect one another. Support one another. Love one another.

 

While Aishwarya has not made any comments or clarifications over the matter, the specifics raises a lot of eyebrows.

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