Gwyneth Paltrow called Harvey Weinstein a ‘coercer’ in TV interview almost two decades ago

GWYNETH Paltrow referred to movie mogul Harvey Weinstein as a “coercer” in a recently resurfaced interview she gave just four years after he allegedly sexually harassed her in his hotel suite.

The actress appeared on “The Late Show with David Letterman” in 1998 to promote her Weinstein-produced movie “Shakespeare in Love.”

“Are you here of your own free will? Has someone coerced you into being here?” Letterman joked with the then-26-year-old.

“Do you count Harvey Weinstein as a coercer?” Paltrow retorted.

“I do all my movies for Harvey Weinstein, that’s Miramax, and I’m lucky to do them there, but he will coerce you to do a thing or two,” Paltrow continued.

When Letterman asked what the actress got in return for doing things for Weinstein, she replied, “Nothing.”

The actress recently told the New York Times that Weinstein, whom she looked up to as a mentor, put his hands on her and suggested she give him a massage at his Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel suite when she was just 22 years old.

“I was a kid, I was signed up, I was petrified,” she told the Times.

After her then-boyfriend Brad Pitt confronted Weinstein, she said, the mogul “screamed” at her and warned her not to tell anyone else.

“He screamed at me for a long time,” she said. “It was brutal.”

The Goop founder and mother of two is one of a slew of women accusing the producer of sexual harassment and abuse.

What we know so far:

• The Sun revealed Harvey Weinstein propositioned Myleene Klass with a sex contract, during a Cannes film festival lunchin 2010.
• The contract included a confidentiality agreement stressing she could not discuss any sexual relationship with Weinstein.
• Kate Beckinsale was also targeted when she was a 17-year-old schoolgirl by Weinstein now 65. The actress said her refusal to give in to the sleazy film-maker’s demands “undoubtedly harmed my career”.
•  The FBI and police in New York and London have all opened investigations into Weinstein, with one cop calling him a “super-predator”;
• Emma Thompson compared him to serial sex offender Jimmy Savile, saying: “It’s the same story. He’s dangerous and what he’s done and what he’s doing is criminal.”
•  Weinstein whined to photographers he was “a good guy” as he flew off to rehab for sex addiction;
•  His long-time PR man in the UK quit over the tidal wave of sex allegations.
• Weinstein has been accused of sexual harassment or abuse of more than 30 women. Three have accused him of rape.
• His wife Brit fashion designer Georgia Chapman has left him.
• The allegations have all been denied by Weinstein.