She added: “I let myself be treated a certain way because I felt I had to for my career. I was young and walking that fine line of sticking up for myself without being called ‘difficult’ […] Together, now, we will stop this kind of behaviour from happening. We will stop normalising these horrific situations. We will change this narrative.”

At the same Elle event in Los Angeles, Reese Witherspoon revealed her own experiences with sexual assault spanned her career, saying she’d been assaulted by a director when she was just 16 years old, saying: “I wish that I could tell you that was an isolated incident in my career, but sadly it wasn’t. I’ve had multiple experiences of harassment and sexual assault and I don’t speak about them very often.”

Weinstein, one of Hollywood’s most famed producers, has been sacked from his own company after being accused by multiple women of sexual assault, harassment and misconduct. Police in the US and UK are investigating. He denies any non-consensual sex, but in a statement said he is seeking therapy and “I appreciate the way I've behaved with colleagues in the past has caused a lot of pain”.

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