“He made me hopeful enough that I could tolerate being disgusted,” she wrote in one email.

Enduring the producer’s misconduct made her determined to maintain contact with him so she could at least extract the career opportunities he had promised, she said. “If anything is going to come out of this, it can’t just be shame,” she said in the interview.

“I realize now how manipulated I was back then,” she added over email.

The Times viewed an email between the actress and one of Mr. Weinstein’s former employees, and also spoke to a friend of hers, Victoria Minkoff, with whom she had shared her story. Through a representative, Mr. Weinstein declined to comment.