Lupita Nyong'o Accuses Hollywood Movie Producer "Harvey Weinstein" of Sexual Harassment

Award winning and Kenya-born actress Lupita Nyong'o is the latest in a long list of women to accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment - claiming he tried to undress in front of her, and once told her that to be in the business she had to be 'willing to do this kind of thing.' Nyong'o wrote about her experiences with Weinstein in The New York Times, saying that after six years of shelving the encounter she decided to come out with her story.

In an op-ed in the New York Times, the 34-year-old, who won an Oscar for her performance in '12 Years a Slave', detailed several explicit passes Mr Weinstein tried to foist on her when she was a student actor at Yale School of Drama.

Lupita said she met the powerful movie producer in 2011 at a movie festival and he invited her back to his home to allegedly watch a film he had just produced.

Fifteen minutes into the film, Mr Weinstein, with his young children at home at the time, allegedly lured her to another part of the house.

"Harvey led me into a bedroom -- his bedroom -- and announced that he wanted to give me a massage," Lupita wrote.

"I thought he was joking at first," Lupita went on. "He was not. For the first time since I met him, I felt unsafe. I panicked a little and thought quickly to offer to give him one instead: I would allow me to be in control physically, to know exactly where his hands were at all times."

She added: "I began to massage his back to buy myself time to figure out how to extricate myself from this undesirable situation."

Before long, she wrote, he said he wanted to take off his trouser. "I told him not to do that and informed him that it would make me extremely uncomfortable."

The incident then ended and she left the home.