Game of Thrones star Lena Headey has opened up about allegedly being sexually harassed by disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.
The 44-year-old, who plays the evil Queen Cersei in the hit fantasy show, met the producer at the Venice Film Festival in 2005 and says the scary encounter left her in tears.
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Headey took to Twitter to claim Weinstein tried to get her into his hotel room and became "furious" when she made it clear she wouldn't have sex with him.
"He said 'let's go up to the room, I want to give you a script'," she says. "We walked to the lift and the energy shifted, my whole body went into high alert.
"I said to Harvey, 'I'm not interested in anything other than work, please don't think I got in here with you for any other reason, nothing is going to happen'.
"He was silent after I spoke, furious."
Headey says he then marched her to his room with his hand on her back, but then his key card wouldn't open the door.
"Then he got really angry," she says.
"He walked me back to the lift, through the hotel to the valet, by grabbing and holding tightly to the back of my arm. He paid for my car and whispered in my ear, 'Don't tell anyone about this'.
"I got into my car and I cried."
More than 30 women have accused Weinstein of sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape.
The 65-year-old has apologised for some of the alleged incidents, blaming his behaviour on a different workplace culture in the '60s and '70s.
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