I hope this haunts you

Kate Winslet fought back tears during an interview with “60 Minutes” and recalled a time when she fought back against the press because she was bullied about her weight after the success of “Titanic.” The Oscar winner has been vocal in the past about the body shaming she endured after James Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster made her a global movie star.

During her “60 Minutes” interview, a clip from “E!” was shown. was played in which the host said that Winslet looked “a little melted and poured” in a dress she wore during the “Titanic” awards season. The host added that Winslet “would need two sizes bigger and she would be fine.”

“It’s absolutely horrific,” Winslet then said of how the press harassed her at the time because of her weight. “What kind of person do you have to be to do something like that to a young actress who’s just trying to figure it out?”

When asked if she had ever faced the press about bullying, Winslet replied: “I have met in person. I left it up to them. I said, ‘I hope this haunts you.'”

“It was a great moment,” Winslet continued, fighting back tears. “It was a great moment because it was not just for me, but for all the people who were subjected to this harassment. It was terrible. It was really bad.”

Winslet revealed in an interview with The Sunday Times in 2022 that she was told to settle for “fat girl” roles when she was a young performer at drama school. The body shaming only got worse after “Titanic.” Winslet said on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast that “Titanic” viewers used the ending of the film to make fun of her weight, saying Rose was too fat for Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jack to be ice cold too water of the Atlantic could survive on the floating door.

“Apparently I was too fat,” Winslet said. “Why were they so mean to me? They were so mean. I wasn’t even fucking fat.”

“I’m a young woman, my body is changing, I’m figuring it out, I’m deeply insecure, I’m scared. “Don’t make it any harder than it already is,” she continued. “It’s bullying, you know, and actually it’s bordering on insulting, I would say.”

Winslet told diversity Earlier this year, the “Titanic” body shaming went on for “years.” Watch her full interview on “60 Minutes” in the video below.