Howard Stern Slams His Harvey Weinstein Interview, Calling Him A 'Liar' Before His Conviction Was Overturned

Summary

• Howard Stern expressed anger at Harvey Weinstein after identifying his lies during a 2014 interview.
• Stern was especially upset for the women hurt by Weinstein and openly criticized his actions.
• After Weinstein's conviction, Stern continued to slam him on his show and questioned his motives.

Accusers were "gutted" when Harvey Weinstein's New York 2020 conviction was overturned in late April 2024. The disgraced movie producer's overturning of his conviction and winning appeal has sparked a lot of discussion and reevaluation of his life and career before his scandal breaking. Granted, the same happened when he was first accused and convicted. In Howard Stern's 2019 book of interviews, "Howard Stern Comes Again", the extremely successful radio personality publicly reassessed his 2014 interview with Harvey Weinstein.

This article will delve into what Howard Stern revealed about getting "a bad feeling" about Weinstein during their interview and then delve into everything he's said about the movie producer after their conversation on the SiriusXM radio show.

Howard Stern Is Angered His Interview With Harvey Weinstein And Knew He Was Lying

Howard Stern has evolved into quite the celebrity interviewer. While he spent the early parts of his career bashing celebrities, he now does deep dives with them on his SiriusXM show. This includes his groundbreaking interview with Barbra Streisand and, yes, his 2014 conversation with Harvey Weinstein. The interview with included in his New York Times best-seller, "Howard Stern Comes Again", which was a compilation of Stern's favorite interviews up until 2019.

Before the transcript of Harvey Weinstein's conversation with Howard Stern on his show in 2014, Howard Stern included a forward that revealed the icky feeling he got from the movie producer. Specifically, the negative feeling that Stern got when Weinstein discussed "sex" and "the power of a movie producer".

"We discussed sex and the power of the producer, and Harvey gave all of the appropriate answers," Stern wrote in his 2019 book.

"Like a good Boy Scout earning a merit badge, [Harvey] said all the right things, and clearly understood the destructive nature of abusing that power and the devastation that would occur if he were out of control."

Stern went on to say, "Reliving the conversation only makes me angrier."

"When I asked him if he ever took advantage of his position, he laughed it off and told me, 'It doesn't work that way... the movies are too expensive. The risks are too great. It doesn't happen that way.' He treated my question as if it was ridiculous, not even in the realm of possibility for anything inappropriate to happen."

The radio legend thinks this is "so tragic and sad" as it reads like a story that Harvey Weinstein would have made into a movie. Someone who worked hard to get where he was in the movie industry and then made a few bad choices that destroyed his life. Despite Weinstein's declaration that he knew how destructive actions such as the ones he was convicted of were, the man appeared to either be putting on a false face or living in a sense of denial of his own behavior.

In later Stern Show episodes, following the 2020 scandal, the radio host double-down on how he was initially put off by the perfect answers Weinstein gave him. Especially given the rumors that had circulated about him in Hollywood. As Stern said on his show, according to Newsweek...

"I knew he was lying, I knew it."

In October 2017, dozens of women were reported to The New York Times and The New Yorker that Harvey Weinstein had abused them in various ways. This includes some of the worst sexual crimes ever reported in Hollywood. Following an intense investigation, Weinstein was found guilty of rape in the third degree in New York. However, the conviction as overturned in 2024 due to an error in the procedural. However, Weinstein is still guilty of the crimes he was convicted of in the state of California, according to BBC.

All of the negative feelings about his interview aside, one point makes Howard Stern the angriest about his interaction with Weinstein. As he wrote in his book...

"In the end, I'm just pissed off for the women who were hurt."

Following their 2014 Interview, Harvey Weinstein never made another appearance on The Stern Show... That is except for impressionists who ridicule the defamed and convicted producer.

What Howard Stern Said About Harvey Weinstein

After Harvey Weinstein's conviction, Howard Stern was a vocal critic of the movie producer. He has slammed Weinstein many times on his show. Stern also claimed that he knew someone who had a negative interaction with Weinstein years previous. However, he did not divulge a name. Stern also called Weinstien's actions "pathetic".

"From a sexual standpoint, I know it's about power, I get it, but what is hot about beating off to a terrified woman?"

According to Yahoo News, Howard Stern also insulted Harvey Weinstien's appearance when discussing the heinous crimes he was convicted of.

"This big fat guy, what does he think? He says to a woman -- here's his standard move according to all these women who have accused him -- he goes, 'Listen, I'm going to get in the shower. I want you to watch me nude.' Now, I'm a man -- if you saw me naked, you'd throw up. There is no girl on the planet that wants to see Harvey Weinstein naked and is gonna get aroused."

Finally, Stern said...

"If I was Harvey Weinstein, I'd wear a burka and say, 'Listen, you don't have to look at me.'"

At the time of this writing, Howard Stern has not publicly addressed the 2024 overturning of Harvey Weinstein's conviction. But he is expected to do so...