UMA THURMAN SAYS HER ASSAULT BY WEINSTEIN WAS LIKE "A BAT TO THE HEAD"

translated, I willingly allowed him to "RAPE" me to get ahead, then I went back for more and more and more and made more money and more money and more money and I smiled and kept my mouth shut and let them use me as bait to do it to more and more girls. I am a victim.

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After months of telling inquiring reporters that she would share her "Weinstein story" when she felt ready Uma Thurman - one of the actresses most closely associated with the Weinstein brothers' Miramax film production studio - has finally opened up to the New York Times about her history of rape and abuse at the hands of Harvey Weinstein.

Thurman explains she waited for two reasons: She was worried she "might cry" because of the intensely emotional subject matter, and she also felt guilty for being both a victim and an enabler of Weinstein's predation. The two worked on a series of immensely popular films together, beginning with the 1994 blockbuster "Pulp Fiction". Weinstein even introduced her to former President Barack Obama at a fundraiser he hosted for the former president at his house.

After more than two decades in the film industry, Thurman is worried that her behavior inadvertently set a precedent that other women followed - willingly and naively walking into the web of a predator.

"The complicated feeling I have about Harvey is how bad I fell about all the women that were attacked after I was," she told me one recent night, looking anguished in her elegant apartment in River House on Manhattan's East Side, as she vaped tobacco, sipped white wine and fed empty pizza boxes into the fireplace.

"I am one of the reasons that a young girl would walk into his room alone, the way I did. Quentin used Harvey as the executive producer of "Kill Bill", a movie that symbolizes female empowerment. And all these lambs walked into slaughter because they were convinced nobody rises to such a position who would do something illegal to you, but they do."

Thurman, like fellow Weinstein victim Rose McGowan, accused her former agency, Creative Artists Agency, of abetting Weinstein's predatory behavior.

The agency has issued a pubic apology. And Thurman says she feels conflicted about her status as being both a victim and a part of the system that turned a blind eye to this culture of victimization.

Like McGowan, Thurman's history of being assaulted by powerful men in Hollywood began when she was a teenager and just starting her career.

One night when she was 16, Thurman went out in Manhattan and met an actor nearly 20 years her senior. The two went back to his Greenwich Village brownstone for a nightcap.