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Winona Ryder was just a teenager when she made her acting debut in the late 1980s, and now she’s opening up about the sexual harassment she encountered in her 20s.
The 51-year-old actress made her acting debut at just 15 in the 1986 film Lucas and broke through just two years later in Beetlejuice and Heathers.
While promoting her long-awaited sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice – in theaters September 6 – Ryder opened up about being ‘blatantly’ sexually harassed in the 90s.
‘I had a couple of difficult experiences with a couple of people who were just blatantly sexually harassing me,’ she told Esquire.
She added, ‘And then it happened again in my 30s. It wasn’t an assault. But it was incredibly inappropriate. It was wild.’
Winona Ryder was just a teenager when she made her acting debut in the late 1980s, and now she’s opening up about the sexual harassment she encountered in her 20s
While promoting her long-awaited sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice – in theaters September 6 – Ryder opened up about being ‘blatantly’ sexually harassed in the 90s
Ryder said those experiences allowed her to, ‘really understand,’ what other victims were subjected to, though she insisted she wasn’t harassed regularly.
‘I was lucky because I was known, so it didn’t happen as much as maybe it would if I had been a struggling actor,’ she continued.
‘But I remember this feeling in your mind: You’re negotiating, you’re thinking about what’s going to happen if you say something. You’re working it out while this person is being extremely creepy,’ she added.
‘If someone was being inappropriate or drunkenly hitting on me it was like, “Ha ha!” You kind of do that. “Ha ha!”‘ she explained.
‘Inappropriate? I dealt with that. But touching me? It felt very invasive,’ she insisted.
She also opened up about dating in her 20s after achieving fame in Hollywood, including one specific date story.
‘I went to the bathroom and when I came back he was talking to someone, and I overheard him saying how he was going to, like, score with Winona Ryder,’ she said of a date at a local bar.
‘I was so crushed. Not only because I thought that we had this genuine connection but also like, “Is this my life? Am I never going to get to meet someone and they’re going to know me based on our conversation [rather than my celebrity]?”‘ she said.
Ryder said those experiences allowed her to, ‘really understand,’ what other victims were subjected to, though she insisted she wasn’t harassed regularly
‘I was lucky because I was known, so it didn’t happen as much as maybe it would if I had been a struggling actor,’ she continued
While she would not divulge the identities of those who harassed her, she added that she didn’t realize the extent of her trauma until telling her Beetlejuice Beetlejuice co-star Jenna Ortega
While she would not divulge the identities of those who harassed her, she added that she didn’t realize the extent of her trauma until telling her Beetlejuice Beetlejuice co-star Jenna Ortega.
‘And as I was saying it, I was like, “Jesus Christ, that’s really f***ed up,”‘ Ryder admitted.
She also shared a story about meeting Harvey Weinstein for the first time, which took her by surprise after.
‘The one time I was supposed to have a meeting with [Weinstein], I went to the Miramax office and I extended my hand and he shook my hand and I sat on the couch and we had a conversation and I left,’ she said.
‘And [afterward] I got, like, screamed at [by an agent]. “What the f**k did you do?’ I was like, “What?” Apparently, I offended him because I extended my hand?’ she said.
Ryder is unsure what she could have done to offend Weinstein, now 72, at the time, but she was under the impression he “did not like” her after that.
