Listen: Actress Says Weinstein Made Her Feel Ashamed and ‘Manipulated’

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Hours after the The New York Times first reported on allegations of sexual harassment against Harvey Weinstein, a woman named Erika Rosenbaum wanted to share her story. “I’m a Canadian actress shaking in my seat,” she wrote in an email to The Times.

Other women were coming forward with allegations about Mr. Weinstein. But Ms. Rosenbaum had an especially acute account of the producer’s alleged methodology, which was not just physical but psychological. She was young, around 21, when she first met Mr. Weinstein a decade and a half ago. As he promised to help her get work, she said, she found herself in harrowing situations in his hotel room more than once, over a period of several years.

“He made me hopeful enough that I could tolerate being disgusting,” she wrote in one email.

Enduring the producer’s misconduct made her determined to maintain contact with him so she could at least extract the career opportunities he had promised, she said. “If anything is going to come out of this, it can’t just be shame,” she said in the interview.

“I realize now how manipulated I was back then,” she added over email.

Ms. Rosenbaum shared her account in this interview. (The Times viewed an email between the actress and one of Mr. Weinstein’s former employees, and also spoke to a friend of the hers, Victoria Minkoff, with whom she had shared her story.) Through a representative, Mr. Weinstein declined to comment.

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