Twenty years ago, Judd was a young actress filming the movie Kiss The Girls when she said Weinstein invited her to a Beverly Hills hotel for a “business meeting”.

Speaking to ABC News, she recalled: “I had a business appointment which is as – that’s, you know, his pattern of sexual predation. That was how he rolled.”

When she got to Weinstein’s room, Judd said the now-disgraced producer asked to give her a massage and then asked for her to give him one, she added.

“I fought with this volley of ‘no’s,’ which he ignored,” Judd said. “Who knows? Maybe he heard them as ‘maybe.’ Maybe he heard them as ‘yeses.’ Maybe they turned him on.”

At one point during the encounter, Weinstein asked her to come into the bathroom and watch him take a shower. “Totally frozen” and sickened by the experience, Judd offered a sort of deal to Weinstein to get him to back off so she could leave.

“He kept coming back at me with all this other stuff,” she said. “And finally I just said, ‘When I win an Oscar in one of your movies, OK?’ And he was like, ‘Yeah, when you get nominated.’ I said, ‘No, when I win an Oscar.’ And then I just fled.”

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