Inside Gwyneth Paltrow and Harvey Weinstein's 'abusive relationship'

Gwyneth WYNETH Paltrow has opened up about her shocking experience with Harvey Weinstein. Photo / Getty Images

Gwyneth Paltrow has opened up about her shocking experience with disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, describing their working relationship as "abusive".

Following Weinstein's spectacular fall from grace last year amid dozens of allegations of sexual harassment and assault, it emerged that Paltrow — who worked with the producer on Emma in 1996 and 1998's Shakespeare in Love — had allegedly been one of his victims.

In a new interview with The New York Times Magazine, the actress gave more details on how he had made a pass at her.

"The one time that Harvey propositioned me was really almost the least of it in terms of how onerous that relationship was, and it was very quid pro quo and punitive," she said.

"And I always felt like I was on thin ice, and he could be truly horrible and mean and then be incredibly generous. It was kind of like a classic abusive relationship."

Paltrow, 45, first opened up about her troubling encounter with Weinstein in an interview with The New York Times last October.

According to the actress, she was summoned to his hotel room for a meeting after being hired to star in the adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma. During the meeting, she claimed he suggested they head to the bedroom for a massage.

"I was a kid, I was signed up, I was petrified," Paltrow said, revealing that she'd told then-boyfriend Brad Pitt about what happened, and that he'd warned Weinstein never to touch her again.

The Times also revealed that Weinstein told women he'd slept with Paltrow in a bid to coerce them into having sex with him, citing multiple sources.

One woman, who accused Weinstein of sexually assaulting her in 2004, claimed that he kept a framed photo of Paltrow in his bedroom. Another who alleged that Weinstein sexually harassed her in 2000 said that Weinstein told her he'd been intimate with Paltrow and other stars.

"He's not the first person to lie about sleeping with someone," Paltrow said. "But he used the lie as an assault weapon."