Salma Hayek Pinault: More to Say About Harvey Weinstein, Aging and Gratitude

Oprah's Super Soul

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.6 • 32.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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After Oprah and Salma Hayek Pinault's conversation at the Apollo Theater in New York City, Harvey Weinstein issued a statement through his spokesperson in which he "deeply apologizes for any pain [Salma] has suffered as a result of his behavior or comments." In this supplemental podcast, Oprah and Salma pick up their conversation as Salma reacts to the statement and adds additional insight to the lessons she's learned about sexual predators. Salma also shares her thoughts on the importance of gratitude, how she feels about aging and the one lesson that took her the longest to learn. Salma says, "A deep sense of gratitude can be such a beautiful, powerful, euphoric sensation."

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0:00.0	I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of
0:07.5	the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present.
0:16.1	Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right
0:23.1	now.
0:24.9	Are you ready, my friend?
0:26.0	I am so ready.
0:28.0	So Selma, after you and I spoke a few weeks ago in New York, you told me there are some
0:32.3	important points that you wanted to add to our conversation.
0:35.8	And I'm going to get to that in just a minute.
0:38.6	But first I wanted to address your comments during our interview that Harvey Weinstein threatened
0:44.4	to break the kneecaps of that seawird, meaning you.
0:50.0	And then we had the debate over C being bigger than B, worse than B. Anyway, during your work
0:55.2	together of the film, Frida, your comments made news from that interview that we did last
1:01.3	week.
1:02.3	In response, a spokesperson for Harvey Weinstein issued a statement, it was a long statement
1:07.7	too, saying that Mr. Weinstein apologizes for his bourish behavior.
1:14.2	First time I've heard that in an apology from him, I find this whole statement really interesting.
1:20.2	Listen to this.
1:21.7	He says, as in most collaborative projects, there was creative friction on Frida.
1:27.4	And in this case, it served to drive the project to perfection.
1:31.5	It wasn't an easy process.
1:33.8	And Mr. Weinstein apologizes for the way he may have approached the situation.
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