The world is burning. The animals are dying. War beckons. Evil people who hate us rule our lives. Scientists quickly change the subject when you ask them about the future. AI is coming for your job. Nobody has any money. Nobody can afford a place to live. Everything is terrible.
But, on the bright side, at least Harvey Weinstein is miserable!
In one of the more uplifting articles I’ve read in some time, the disgraced Hollywood sex monster has been interviewed by The Hollywood Reporter and is describes his life behind bars in Riker’s Island as “hell”. Ooh, pass the popcorn and give us the deets Harv! Please don’t leave out a single humiliating moment!
The interviewer finds Weinstein “slumped in a wheelchair” and “much thinner and grayer and paler than I remembered him.” Great start. But c’mon, let’s get to the good stuff!
Weinstein explains he spends “23 hours a day” in his cell, with no human contact other than his guards. If he ventures out into the yard?
“It’s too dangerous for me to be around anyone else. Other inmates get to go to the yard. But every time I’m out there, I feel like I’m under siege. They come up and say, “Weinstein, give me some money.” “Weinstein, give me your lawyer.” “Weinstein, do this.” “Weinstein, do that.” I’m constantly threatened and derided. I wouldn’t last long out there.”
Dang, it really sounds rough to be physically and financially threatened by physically powerful men with implicit violence behind their demands, doesn’t it, Harv? Maybe something to dwell on?
The other prisoners clearly don’t give much credence to his former reputation either, with him detailing how he was punched “hard in the face” for trying to get a fellow inmate to hurry up with his phone call home.
You reap what you sow
So, has Weinstein’s dramatic fall from grace given him some fresh perspective on his crimes? Not really, but he’s the guest of honor at his own personal pity party:
“It’s incredible to have the life that I had and the things that I did for society and not have the leniency to deal with me in a kinder way.”
Apparently, Weinstein still doesn’t think he did much wrong, denying he ever sexually assaulted anyone and saying his worst crime was bullying people:
I overstepped my boundaries. That’s for sure. I could be a horrible bully. I used power in an arrogant way. I was pushy and insistent, and I feel terrible. I’m ashamed of that behavior, and I see it now in ways that I couldn’t before.”
Weinstein is still hopeful that his innocence will be proven. I mean, it’s always nice to have some straws to clutch at. But, even so, he’s well aware that his current miserable situation may last until the end of his life:
“It scares the s–t out of me. Cold and heartless. … Whatever they think I did bad in my life, I didn’t get the death penalty. I’m going to be 74 in March. I don’t want to die in here.”
Mmm. Yeah. Well, as countless women discovered over the years with you, what they “want” to happen and what actually happens can be two very different things.
Hopefully, reading this has put as much of a spring in your step as it has mine for writing it. Now, back to whatever nightmarish thing Donald Trump has done today. But hey, maybe if we’re good boys and girls, we’ll one day be reading a similar morose prison interview from Trump himself! A guy can dream!
Published: Mar 11, 2026 08:19 am