\u201cHe got off and punched me hard in the face. I fell on the floor, bleeding everywhere. I was hurt really badly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Weinstein, diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukaemia, fears dying in custody and losing family contact. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n
Weinstein added that prison officers asked him to identify his attacker but he refused.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cThe cops asked me who had done it, but I couldn\u2019t say. You can\u2019t be a rat. That\u2019s the law of the jungle.\u201d<\/p>\n
Weinstein also described conditions inside the facility, renowned as America\u2019s toughest jail, saying it was hostile and unsafe.<\/p>\n
He added he believes it is dangerous for him to mix with other inmates and that he spends long periods alone in his cell.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s too dangerous for me to be around anyone else. Other inmates get to go to the yard. But every time I\u2019m out there, I feel like I\u2019m under siege,\u201d Weinstein said.<\/p>\n
He also said he feared dying while in prison custody, adding: \u201cIt\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cWhatever they think I did bad in my life, I didn\u2019t get the death penalty.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the interview, Harvey also said he had lost contact with members of his family.<\/p>\n
Weinstein said he had attempted to reach out to two of his daughters but had not received responses.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cThey never respond. Their mother cut me off too. It\u2019s been radio silence from them ever since the allegations started.\u201d<\/p>\n
Separate reporting by NBC News has stated Weinstein has been diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukaemia.<\/p>\n
According to the network\u2019s report, he is receiving treatment while being held at Rikers Island.<\/p>\n
The National Cancer Institute describes chronic myeloid leukaemia as a \u201ctype of cancer in the bone marrow that makes a large number of abnormal blood cells\u201d.<\/p>\n
Craig Rotherfeld, Harvey\u2019s legal healthcare representative, declined to provide further details about the diagnosis. \u201cOut of respect for Mr Weinstein\u2019s privacy, we will offer no further comment,\u201d Rotherfeld said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHe got off and punched me hard in the face. I fell on the floor, bleeding everywhere. I…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[95,17704,32034,2741,2562,8452,11557,156,2222,424,111,139,69,8442,175002,5763,74908,119120,12790,6123],"class_list":["post-324385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-and","tag-assault","tag-assaulted","tag-claim","tag-claims","tag-dangerous","tag-describes","tag-entertainment","tag-harvey","tag-life","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-prison","tag-rikers","tag-sentence","tag-serving","tag-violently","tag-weinstein","tag-while"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}