The New York Post: ‘Friday Night Lights’ and ‘Parenthood’ actress Minka Kelly regrets Weinstein silence

Minka Kelly regrets the way she handled an uncomfortable situation with Harvey Weinstein.

The “Parenthood” alum used Instagram to share her experience with the disgraced movie mogul, whom she met at an industry party. The following day he requested a meeting with her in his hotel room, but Kelly recalled that she “wasn’t comfortable with going to his room & said so.” Instead, Kelly, an assistant, and Weinstein took the meeting at a hotel restaurant. Kelly wrote that she and Harvey “bulls–t” for five minutes about movie opportunities for her before he asked the assistant to excuse them.

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“As she walked away, he said, ‘I know you were feeling what I was feeling when we met the other night’ and then regaled me with offers of a lavish life filled with trips around the world on private planes etc. IF I would be his girlfriend. Or, ‘We could just keep this professional,’ ” Kelly recalled. “All I knew was not to offend this very powerful man and to get out of the situation as quickly as possible.”

Kelly continued, “I told him while flattered, I’d like to keep things professional. He said ‘Fine. I trust you won’t tell anyone about this.’ I said ‘Of course not. Thank you so much for taking the time to meet with me,’ — the only way I could think to shut it down gracefully and excuse myself.”

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Minka Kelly and retired NBA star Robert Horry took part in a USO holiday tour in 2011 that included this stop at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan.

The “Friday Night Lights” actress reported the incident to her agent and neither was “that surprised as this wasn’t far off from the day-to-day bulls–t of being an actress.” But after the New Yorker and New York Times came out with their bombshell reports, Kelly felt compelled to apologize.

“I’m sorry for obliging his orders to be complicit in protecting his behavior, which he obviously knew was wrong or he wouldn’t have asked me not to tell anyone in the first place,” she continued in her caption. “For making him feel ok about the gross things he was saying and that I felt my only route was to say I was flattered. For not insisting that my reps never allow anyone to take a meeting in a hotel room (with him or anyone else), because I honestly don’t know what might have happened if I’d just showed up as originally scheduled.”

Kelly then said she was “appalled” for the victims who have been told that what has happened to them was their fault and encouraged more people to come forward so that this systemic abuse won’t be tolerated.

This report previously appeared on the New York Post site PageSix.com.

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