Uma Thurman explains her anger at Harvey Weinstein

(Peter Lindbergh)

This post has been updated. 

Harvey Weinstein was sexually aggressive with Uma Thurman on multiple occasions, and after an incident in a London hotel room, the Hollywood mogul “threatened to derail her career,” according to a new interview with the actress in the New York Times.

The comments come three months after a seething Thurman told Access Hollywood that, in the wake of revelations about Weinstein’s abuse, she had “been waiting to feel less angry. And when I’m ready, I’ll say what I have to say.”

The actress made good on that promise, over the course of two interviews in her New York apartment with Times columnist Maureen Dowd.

“The complicated feeling I have about Harvey is how bad I feel about all the women that were attacked after I was,” Thurman said. “I am one of the reasons that a young girl would walk into his room alone, the way I did.”

Thurman detailed occasions on which she rebuffed Weinstein’s advances. “He pushed me down,” she said. “He tried to shove himself on me.”

Weinstein issued a statement to the Times saying that he “acknowledges making a pass at Ms. Thurman in England after misreading her signals in Paris.” After the story published on Saturday, Weinstein issued a new statement denying the allegation that he physically assaulted Thurman. According to the statement there was no physical contact during what Weinstein’s spokeswoman described as an “awkward pass” following a flirtatious exchange. Weinstein’s attorney Ben Brafman is expected to issue a more detailed response later.

In the interview, Thurman also recounts a traumatic event on the set of “Kill Bill,” where she was injured in a car crash after being coerced into filming her own stunt by director Quentin Tarantino. After the accident — and an ensuing fight with Tarantino — Thurman said she went from “from being a creative contributor and performer to being like a broken tool.”

“Personally,” the actress said, “it has taken me 47 years to stop calling people who are mean to you ‘in love’ with you.”