Reluctantly, Argento said that she agreed to give the producer a massage. After, she said he allegedly pulled her skirt up, and forced her legs apart before performing oral sex on her while she asked him, repeatedly, to stop. Argento said she was “terrified” of Weinstein, adding, “It wouldn’t stop. It was a nightmare.”
“I was not willing,” she said. “I said, ‘No, no, no.’ . . . It’s twisted. A big fat man wanting to eat you. It’s a scary fairy tale.” After, Argento said she told Weinstein, “I am not a whore” — at which, she claimed, he laughed.
Her silence was out of fear and self-loathing, said Argento. “The thing with being a victim is I felt responsible. Because if I were a strong woman, I would have kicked him in the balls and run away. But I didn’t. And so I felt responsible.”
And Weinstein stayed in touch — they even became friends, with the mogul introducing Argento to his mother. “He made it sound like he was my friend and he really appreciated me,” she shared, admitting to later consensual sexual relations with the producer in the five years that followed the incident. At one point, she also revealed, Weinstein helped her pay for a nanny while she was a single mother.
As least once though — around the release of B. Monkey — Argento claimed the interaction happened because she felt she “had to,” saying that she believed Weinstein would ruin her career if she didn’t agree to his advances.
