Salma Hayek writes in a harrowing personal essay for The New York Times that she, too, had some terrible experiences with Harvey Weinstein. Not only does she say, like scores of other women, that Weinstein reportedly approached her for s-xual favors, but she also alleges that he “physically dragged” her out of a party, berated her repeatedly, and made ridiculous demands while filming the 2002 biopic Frida. Weinstein allegedly threatened her life at one point.

“Harvey Weinstein was a passionate cinephile, a risk taker, a patron of talent in film, a loving father and a monster. For years, he was my monster,” Hayek writes in The New York Times.

Hayek, who worked regularly with Weinstein’s Miramax in the 1990s, credited Weinstein with launching her career.

However, she alleges that her refusals of massages, showers, and intercourse angered him.

Writing a list of the things Weinstein asked her to do, Hayek explained she said, “No to opening the door to him at all hours of the night, hotel after hotel, location after location, where he would show up unexpectedly, including one location where I was doing a movie he wasn’t even involved with.”

“No to me taking a shower with him. No to letting him watch me take a shower. No to letting him give me a massage. No to letting a naked friend of his give me a massage. No to letting him give me oral s-x. No to my getting naked with another woman,” she went on.

She went on to say that his persuasive techniques ranged from sweet-talking her to saying the frightening words, “I will kill you, don’t think I can’t.”

He nearly halted the production of Frida and proposed clauses such as rewriting the script for free, obtaining $10 million (£7.4 million) to finance the picture, appointing an A-list director, and placing prominent actors in four of the minor roles.

She agreed to naked lesbian intercourse in the 2002 film Frida after he threatened to axe it, and she admits she “began to cry” and had a nervous breakdown during filming the sequences.

She continued, “He would let me finish the film if I agreed to do a s-x scene with another woman. It was not because I would be naked with another woman. It was because I would be naked with her for Harvey Weinstein. But I could not tell them then.”

“And he demanded full-frontal n*dity. But this time, it was clear to me he would never let me finish this movie without him having his fantasy one way or another. There was no room for negotiation.”

Speaking about filming the forced scene, she wrote: “I had to take a tranquiliser, which eventually stopped the crying but made the vomiting worse.”

Despite the fact that the experience had a negative impact on her, Hayek kept the claims to herself for many years. Even today, after hundreds of women have made similar accusations about Weinstein’s alleged s-xual misconduct, to the point where the once-powerful producer has been forced out of Hollywood, Hayek assumed no one would be interested in hearing her story.

Weinstein has rejected all claims of extramarital affairs. Weinstein “does not recall pressuring Salma to do a gratuitous s-x scene with a female costar and he was not there for the filming,” a spokesman said Wednesday night.

“All of the s-xual allegations as portrayed by Salma are not accurate and others who witnessed the events have a different account of what transpired.”

“However, that was part of the story, as Frida Kahlo was bis-xual and the more significant s-x scene in the movie was choreographed by Ms Hayek with Geoffrey Rush.”