Harvey Weinstein once blamed his much-reported ill temper on, yes, M&M’s. In 2004, while speaking to New York Magazine, Weinstein volunteered a peculiar defense, telling the outlet, “I used to read about myself. They’d say, ‘He has a temper’ or ‘He’s a bully’ or something like that, and it always bothered me.” Weinstein claimed the problem was “the relationship to sugar in my body,” chalking it up to him skipping meals and eating M&M’s to compensate. “I would just eat M&M’s all day, sweets, you know, for what I thought was energy … And what happened was the glucose level would go from 50 to 250 in my case. It’s not in everybody’s case. Some people handle sweets better.” Hmm, okay. After a doctor diagnosed him with adult-onset diabetes, Weinstein told the outlet at the time, “[F]or the last two, three years, as soon as I started to recognize the sugar thing, there have been no outbursts.” Well, whew.
Interestingly, “Hoodwinked” filmmakers Brian Inerfeld and Tony Leech — when filing a legal claim against Weinstein in 2011 — seemingly corroborated Weinstein’s relationship with the sugar-coated candies. Per the duo, Weinstein once allegedly “attempted to consume an entire bowl of M&M candies” at a film screening, spilling them on the floor after people concerned for him protested (via the AV Club). They then detailed that Weinstein, undeterred, allegedly ate the M&M’s off the floor on his hands and knees. Just ew.
