It didn’t take long for Hollywood to react with horror when Uma Thurman broke her silence over the weekend about her experiences with Harvey Weinstein, and the horrific car accident she suffered through during the making of “Kill Bill.” The actress revealed that she had been forced by Quentin Tarantino to perform the unsafe stunt that went wrong, and nearly caused Thurman severe injuries.
“The steering wheel was at my belly and my legs were jammed under me,” she recalled. “I felt this searing pain and thought, ‘Oh my God, I’m never going to walk again.’ When I came back from the hospital in a neck brace with my knees damaged and a large massive egg on my head and a concussion, I wanted to see the car and I was very upset. Quentin and I had an enormous fight, and I accused him of trying to kill me. And he was very angry at that, I guess understandably because he didn’t feel he had tried to kill me.”
Many voices were quick to call out Tarantino, including Jessica Chastain, Judd Apatow, Evan Rachel Wood, and Asia Argento. But in an update to her Instagram, Thurman reveals that it was Tarantino himself who provided the horrific footage of the accident to the actress, knowing it could damage his reputation. Furthermore, Thurman blames Harvey Weinstein and other producers on “Kill Bill” for trying to cover up the incident.
“Quentin Tarantino, was deeply regretful and remains remorseful about this sorry event, and gave me the footage years later so I could expose it and let it see the light of day, regardless of it most likely being an event for which justice will never be possible,” she wrote. “I am proud of him for doing the right thing and for his courage.”
Weinstein, Lawrence Bender, and E. Bennett Walsh “lied, destroyed evidence, and continue to lie about the permanent harm they caused and then chose to suppress. The cover up did have malicious intent, and shame on these three for all eternity,” she added.
Weinstein has denied any allegations of sexual impropriety with Thurman, and his team have vaguely threatened legal action. There has been no official word from Weinstein or Tarantino about the “Kill Bill” incident.
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This headline is making an assumption that Thurman does not actually state. Forgiving someone (for acting without malicious intent) is not the same as saying they weren’t at fault. She is proud of him for doing the the right thing and having the courage to provide the footage, but she never says she doesn’t blame him for being negligent in the first place. The truth is we don’t know whether she blames him or not, so we shouldn’t be making assumptions and then posting them as headlines.