Ellen Pompeo Says Weinstein Victims Simply Shouldn’t Have Let Him Rape Them in Resurfaced Interview

There have been a lot of stupid takes about Harvey Weinstein, but Grey’s Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo had one of the worst. It was so bad that it basically flew under the radar for two years because everyone heard it, moved on as it processed and then this week it finally clicked and everyone went “hold up, that bitch said what?”

what the fvck is wrong with ellen pompeo😭 this is absolutely DISGUSTING pic.twitter.com/rrjoKTSwjR

— kelly (@filmsjroberts) April 22, 2020

That video cuts of the question, which Page Six reports was “What do you think needs to happen for this to be a permanent watermark that actually changes the way things are run in Hollywood, certainly internal dynamics forever?” But Jesus Christ her answer.

“I think we bear some responsibility, not all, but it takes two to tango for sure.”

It does take two to tango but if you hold someone down and force them to tango after injecting boner drugs in your tiny, smelly dong then the blame falls entirely on you.

That’s not to blame the victim, that’s just to say — I did go into a room with Harvey Weinstein, I sat at a table with him, I had a probably two and a half hours with him. He never said anything inappropriate to me, he never made any sort of physical advance to me. I wouldn’t have gone into that room at night.

Did you know you can’t get raped in the daytime? Little know fact, much like vampires, rapes only happen at night.

But he did nothing inappropriate toward me. Now had he, I would have picked up that glass and smashed him across the side of the face with it. So I mean, it’s all what we’re willing to tolerate in our self-esteem, and what are we going to put up with, and what are we going to compromise to be liked, to be loved, to be accepted? How bad do we want to be in show business?

“I don’t want to victim-blame here, but I think these women should have simple not gotten raped, that would have solved everything.”

Everyone thinks they’re a hero until they find out they’re not. I’m sure Ellen believes had a Weinstein tried to rape her, she would have fought him off and then done a sick stalefish ollie on her skateboard in the parking lot but no one knows what would happen in that situation. You can only act how you act in the moment and let’s be honest, in addition to having the power to seriously set back people’s careers, which he did do all the time, Harvey Weinstein is a big dude.

Now, this is not to say people shouldn’t take steps to protect themselves, of course you should. But it’s not actually your fault if you’re victimized, and even people who take steps to not be victimized end up being victims. For example, owning a gun to protect yourself from burglars paradoxically makes you more likely to be burglarized because guns are one of the highest-value targets for burglars due to their value and the ease of selling them illegally. You can’t just say “well, it’s your fault bad things happened to you because you made a mistake” because everyone makes mistakes all the time.