A staggering number of women have come forward with allegations of sexual harassment and abuse at the hands of film executive Harvey Weinstein.

Minka Kelly is the latest star to go public with an uncomfortable encounter with Weinstein, saying he offered her roles and a “lavish lifestyle” if she’d be his “girlfriend”.

In an Instagram post the Friday Night Lights star revealed that as many other actresses have said, Weinstein invited her to meet in his hotel room.

“I wasn’t comfortable with going to his room and said so, [so] the following day we sat down with an assistant in the hotel restaurant,” she wrote.

“He bullshit me for five minutes about movies he could put me in, then asked the assistant to excuse us.

“As she walked away, he said, ‘I know you were feeling what I was feeling when we met the other night’ and then regaled me with offers of a lavish life filled with trips around the world on private planes, etc. IF I would be his girlfriend.”

The 37-year-old said her instinct was to politely remove herself from the situation.

“I told him while flattered, I’d like to keep things professional. He said ‘Fine. I trust you won’t tell anyone about this.’

“I said ‘Of course not. Thank you so much for taking the time to meet with me,’ – the only way I could think to shut it down gracefully and excuse myself.”

Kelly told her agent what happened, but admitted she wasn’t surprised, describing such meetings as “not far off from the day-to-day bullshit of being an actress.”

But in the light of so many instances of abuse at the hands of Weinstein – three allegations accuse him of rape – Minka feels guilty for not doing more at the time.

“I’m sorry for obliging his orders to be complicit in protecting his behaviour, which he obviously knew was wrong or he wouldn’t have asked me not to tell anyone in the first place.

“For making him feel okay about the gross things he was saying and that I felt my only route was to say I was flattered.

“For not insisting that my reps never allow anyone to take a meeting in a hotel room (with him or anyone else), because I honestly don’t know what might have happened if I’d just showed up as originally scheduled [in his hotel room].”

The actress added that while Weinstein’s behaviour being out in the open is a step in the right direction, the issue of women being intimidated, sexually propositioned and even assaulted in Hollywood is far from over.

“No more Harvey Weinstein in Hollywood does not solve the problem, but maybe the more voices sharing their stories and adding support to the countless women and men who have suffered through abuse of power, the less it will be tolerated.”