October 11 is International Day of the Girl, an initiative of the United Nations to “EmPOWER girls: Before, during and after conflict.”
After speaking out this week about past conflict of her own, Gwenyth Paltrow took to Instagram in the spirit of International Day of The Girl, posting a beautiful selfie alongside 13-year-old daughter, Apple.
Gwyneth Paltrow
With it she wrote, “Everything I do in my life I do for this girl (and her brother).”
The post comes just one day after Paltrow came forward accusing Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein of sexually harassing her at the age of 22.
Weinstein is under fire this week after a New York Times report put Weinstein front and center as a man who’s used his “power” in Hollywood to sexually harass and even sexually assault women for decades.
Paltrow told the New York Times that the movie mogul made unwanted advances toward her in a hotel room when she was 22.
The encounter came shortly after Weinstein hired Paltrow for the lead role in the 1996 film Emma. He allegedly placed his hands on her and proceeded to suggest a massage.
“I was a kid, I was signed up, I was petrified,” she said.
Paltrow says she denied his advances, but didn’t keep quiet. She confided in her then-boyfriend, Brad Pitt, about the harassment. Pitt then confronted Weinstein at a Hollywood party later that year.
Following their confrontation, Paltrow tells the Times that Weinstein called her and threatened her not to tell anyone else. “I thought he was going to fire me,” she recalls. “He screamed at me for a long time. It was brutal.”
Paltrow admits she feels “relieved” to have spoken out about Weinstein’s misconduct.