Lauren Sivan spoke to Megyn Kelly on Kelly’s eponymous ‘Today’ show hour Monday.
Megyn Kelly landed the first TV interview with TV reporter Lauren Sivan, who, just a few days ago, alleged that Harvey Weinstein masturbated in front of her after trying to kiss her.
Sivan, who joined Kelly in her Megyn Kelly Today studio for an interview during the NBC News host’s 9 a.m. hour of the morning show Monday, told her story about meeting and being accosted by Weinstein, including how she felt as it was happening and looking back on the incident.
She revealed that it was Weinstein’s bizarre statement to the New York Times after that outlet broke the news Thursday of decades of alleged sexual harassment that was the “final straw.”
“That apology was the final straw for me, so when I was contacted by a reporter, that is when I said, ‘Oh no, enough is enough with this guy.’ There is no remorse, there was no acknowledgement of the type of behavior that was going on,” Sivan said. “If he did this with me, who is just a stranger, who is not an actress in Hollywood and doesn’t need anything from him, I can only imagine how many other women something like this has happened to.”
She added that she believes all of the women who’ve come forward to allege harassment by Weinstein. She explained that the casualness of Weinstein’s behavior with her, she felt, gave her the impression she was not the only one.
Looking back on the incident, Sivan said she saw some red flags when Weinstein took her downstairs for what he said would be a tour of the kitchen and they got down there and just saw two men sweeping.
She said Weinstein shooed them away and they walked to a hallway where he cornered her and tried to kiss her. She rebuffed him and he blocked the exit and told her to just stand there and be quiet.That’s when, she says, he exposed himself and began pleasuring himself. Sivan said she was “shocked” and “stood there dumbfounded.”
“I was so shocked, I couldn’t believe, what was I witnessing. Could not believe what I was witnessing. It was disgusting and kind of pathetic really to stand there and look at this man. But more than the disgusting act itself, which of course was gross, the demeaning part of it all, that just 20 minutes earlier he was having this great conversation with me and I felt so great and flattered by it. And then, [to have him say] ‘stand there and be quiet,’ just a few minutes later just negated any warm feelings I had and I realized ‘Oh, that is what this is all about.'”
She added, “He finished and I said, ‘Can I go now?’ And he said, ‘Yes let’s go, let’s both go.'”
Kelly asked if Sivan felt like she could have escaped and Sivan said looking back, she feels like she could have pushed past him if she felt her life was in danger, but at the time she was so shocked and it all happened relatively quickly.
After a commercial break, Kelly asked Sivan why she didn’t come forward with her experience right away.
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