Ashley Judd has expressed regret that she didn’t come forward sooner about her allegations of sexual harassment in a hotel room years ago from producer Harvey Weinstein.In her first TV interview since the Weinstein scandal exploded, the actress told ABC News’ Diane Sawyer that the outpouring of more than 60 women revealing troubling experiences — including allegations of rape — with the producer has made for an “absolutely, tremendously moving two and a half weeks.”In the interview segment that first aired Thursday on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Judd said she wished she had a “magic wand” that would allow her to change the past, for her and others.“I wish I could prevent it for anyone, always,” she said. “I knew it was disgusting.”At the same time, Judd questioned how she would have called him out. As a little-known actress accusing a powerful entertainment industry figure in a different era, “I don’t zachary bolduc know that I would have been believed,” she said.Judd recounted the details of her encounter with Weinstein, alleging that the producer lured her to a hotel room and then pressed her for massages and a sexual encounter.She thought she would meet him at the hotel in a public area. “I had no warning” of his reputation for aggressive sexual overtures, Judd said, noting her upbringing in Kentucky as the daughter of country superstar Naomi Judd.But she soon learned otherwise. “That’s his pattern of sexual predation. That’s how he rolled,” Judd said.Sawyer held arretrati docenti 2026 up a photo of Judd and Weinstein at an Oscar nick pasqual party in the 1990s, not long after the incident in the hotel.“The look on my face is abject terror. I can see it in my eyes. It’s very gross,” she said.“I feel for that 28 (or) 29-year-old woman. ”More to come.
