Thurman’s allegations regarding Weinstein took place in the time period after the success of the 1994 Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction, which was produced by Weinstein. The alleged incident took place at his suite in London’s Savoy Hotel.

“He pushed me down. He tried to shove himself on me… He did all kinds of unpleasant things,” Thurman told the Times.

“But he didn’t actually put his back into it and force me. You’re like an animal wriggling away, like a lizard.”

She said a bunch of flowers arrived the next day with a note reading: “You have great instincts.”

Thurman went on to reveal that Weinstein was not the first man to assault her during her Hollywood career.

Explaining that she met an actor - who is not named - at a Manhattan nightclub when she was just 16 years old, the actress said that she was “coerced” when she returned to his home for a late-night drink.

“I was ultimately compliant,” she told the newspaper. “I tried to say no, I cried, I did everything I could do. He told me the door was locked but I never ran over and tried the knob.

“When I got home, I remember I stood in front of the mirror and I looked at my hands and I was so mad at them for not being bloody or bruised.”

Uma Thurman reveals grim details of Harvey Weinstein attack