George Clooney and Matt Damon say they knew Harvey Weinstein was a 'Womanizer'

Hollywood actors, Matt Damon and George Clooney say that they both knew Harvey Weinstein was somewhat of a “womanizer,” but they were unaware he was preying on women in Hollywood to the level that many starlets have recently come forward to allege.



In a new interview on ABC News, Damon and Clooney said they were outraged for their female counterparts after a growing number of women in the industry accused Weinstein of sexual harassment and even rape in some cases.

"When people say like, 'Everybody knew,' like, yeah, I knew I knew he was an asshole. He was proud of that. But this level of criminal sexual predation is not something that I ever thought was going on” Matt Damon said.

He added that he “knew the story about Gwyneth” from Ben Affleck, his close friend and Paltrow’s ex-boyfriend. “I never talked to Gwyneth about it,” Damon said. “I knew that they had come to whatever, you know, agreement or understanding that they had come to. She had handled it.”

Damon first worked with Weinstein on Good Will Hunting in the late 1990s and said he knew Weinstein “was a womanizer” and a “bully. What makes something like this so horrific is that these are women and actresses who are pursuing their
dreams,” Damon said. “And they're doing everything right. And suddenly they found themselves alone with a predator.”
Clooney said he would have “done something” had he known the extent of what was happening, though he didn't specify what kind of action he would have taken. “The idea that this predator, this assaulter was out there silencing women like that, it's beyond infuriating,” he said.