Cara Delevingne Claims Harvey Weinstein Assaulted Her: ‘This Must Stop’

Actress and model Cara Delevingne came forward Wednesday with an account of her experiences with beleaguered film producer Harvey Weinstein, who is alleged to have sexually harassed and assaulted some two dozen women in Hollywood. Delevingne recounted the incidents in a statement to journalist Yashar Ali, who shared it on Twitter.

“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,” she said. “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.”

Delevingne, 25, said that two years later, she was with Weinstein and a director discussing a role in the lobby of a hotel. When the director left, Weinstein reportedly began to talk about “all the actresses he had slept with,” how he’d helped their careers and “other inappropriate things of a sexual nature.”

She said she was later asked up to Weinstein’s hotel room, where another woman was waiting with him. Weinstein reportedly asked them to kiss, and the unnamed woman began making advances on Delevingne. As a distraction, she began to sing in an apparent act to deflect the alleged advances. The actress said she believed it would “make the situation better” and “more professional.” She then said that she 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,” she said. “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.”

Delevingne said she didn’t speak out because she didn’t want to hurt Weinstein’s family. She said she felt “guilty” about the incident but also “terrified” by the idea that “this sort of thing” happened to other women in her industry who overwhelmingly remained silent about their experiences out of fear.

“I want women and girls to know that being harassed or abused or raped is NEVER their fault and not talking about it will always cause more damage than speaking the truth,” she said. “This must stop.”

More than two dozen women have come forward alleging some form of abuse by Weinstein, 65, who was fired from his own company following an explosive exposé from the New York Times that claimed the former studio executive paid off his accusers for decades. His wife Georgina Chapman, 41, announced Tuesday that she was leaving her husband.

“My heart breaks for all the women who have suffered tremendous pain because of these unforgivable actions. I have chosen to leave my husband,” she said in a statement to People. “Caring for my young children is my first priority and I ask the media for privacy at this time.”

The couple has two children together.