--- title: Salma Hayek on Decision to Speak Up About Harvey Weinstein description: Salma Hayek told Oprah she felt ashamed for not coming forward earlier with her sexual harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein. canonical: https://time.com/5139272/salma-hayek-harvey-weinstein-oprah/ author: Samantha Cooney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-08T15:36:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T19:12:04.145Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Salma Hayek Felt Like a ‘Coward’ for Not Speaking Up About Harvey Weinstein Earlier og:description: 'I felt ashamed' og:url: https://time.com/5139272/salma-hayek-harvey-weinstein-oprah/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a01caef0a82e977/698926b4bc6cfc6b1d3e4ec2/salma-hayek-oprah.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Oprah's Super Soul Conversations og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Salma Hayek Felt Like a ‘Coward’ for Not Speaking Up About Harvey Weinstein Earlier twitter:description: 'I felt ashamed' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a01caef0a82e977/698926b4bc6cfc6b1d3e4ec2/salma-hayek-oprah.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Salma Hayek Felt Like a ‘Coward’ for Not Speaking Up About Harvey Weinstein Earlier > Sponsored content. 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During a taping of _Oprah’s SuperSoul Conversations_ on Wednesday, Hayek told [Oprah Winfrey](http://time.com/collection/firsts/4898535/oprah-winfrey-firsts/) that she was approached by the New York _Times,_ which [broke the first story](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/us/harvey-weinstein-harassment-allegations.html) about the allegations against Weinstein, to come forward with her story earlier_._ But she said the thought of making her claims public made her emotional. “\[The _Times_\] contacted me to be a part of the first story and already by this contact, there was all this turmoil and I started crying when they asked and I ended up not doing it,” Hayek said, [according to _The Hollywood Reporter_](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/salma-hayek-almost-didnt-publish-her-harvey-weinstein-story-i-felt-like-my-pain-was-small-1082973). “And then I felt ashamed that I was a coward. I was supporting women for two decades, and then I was a coward.” Hayek eventually detailed her allegations in a [_Times_ op-ed](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/13/opinion/contributors/salma-hayek-harvey-weinstein.html) published in December. In the piece, she said Weinstein [repeatedly harassed her](http://time.com/5062917/salma-hayek-harvey-weinstein/) while she was working to produce the 2002 film _Frida_. A spokesperson for Weinstein denied her allegations, saying in a statement at the time: “All of the sexual allegations as portrayed by Salma are not accurate and others who witnessed the events have a different account of what transpired.” The actor also told Winfrey that she had had similar experiences of sexual harassment earlier in her life, according to _The Hollywood Reporter._ “\[Weinstein\] was not the first guy to do this to me. I was really smart around him. I handled it really well,” she said. “And maybe that’s why he didn’t rape me.” Salma Hayek on Decision to Speak Up About Harvey Weinstein ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5139272/salma-hayek-harvey-weinstein-oprah/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5139272/salma-hayek-harvey-weinstein-oprah/"},"headline":"Salma Hayek Felt Like a ‘Coward’ for Not Speaking Up About Harvey Weinstein Earlier","datePublished":"2018-02-08T15:36:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T19:12:04.145Z","description":"'I felt ashamed'","url":"https://time.com/5139272/salma-hayek-harvey-weinstein-oprah/","keywords":["Harvey Weinstein","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a01caef0a82e977/698926b4bc6cfc6b1d3e4ec2/salma-hayek-oprah.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Cooney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-cooney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a01caef0a82e977/698926b4bc6cfc6b1d3e4ec2/salma-hayek-oprah.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Oprah's Super Soul Conversations","caption":"Oprah's Super Soul Conversations","creditText":"Kevin Mazur—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/harvey-weinstein/","name":"Harvey Weinstein"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5139272/salma-hayek-harvey-weinstein-oprah/","name":"Salma Hayek Felt Like a ‘Coward’ for Not Speaking Up About Harvey Weinstein Earlier"}}]}] ```