Ron Perlman Peed On His Hand Before Shaking Harvey Weinstein’s

Give Ron Perlman a hand, won’t you? Image by Getty Images

By Jenny Singer June 26, 2018

Is it okay to secretly urinate on your hand before shaking another person’s hand if that person is an alleged sexual tyrant?

For a book that’s almost infinity pages long, the Talmud is surprisingly quiet on this issue. Ron Perlman, the leonine actor you may have enjoyed in such films as “Hellboy” or “Hellboy II,” has opened up on this topic in a way the ancient text has not.

The actor tweeted on Monday that once, knowing he was expected to shake Harvey Weinstein’s hand at a charity event, he peed on his hand prior to their meeting. In a seeming non-sequitur mystifying to this vegetarian Democrat, Perlman, who is not tycoon and Jewish philanthropist Ronald Perelman, went on to add that he thinks of this episode every time he sees a photo of Donald Trump eating Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Did I ever tell ya about when Harvey Weinstein told me to make sure I shook his hand at a charity event, so I stopped in the mens room and pissed all over my hand, then went straight up to him on the receiving line? I think about that every time lil donnie opens up his KFC.

— Ron Perlman (@perlmutations) June 25, 2018

We have a lot of questions about this.

1.Did Perlman pee on his hand in a urinal or in a toilet stall? If in a urinal, were others present?

2.How many other hands did Perlman shake before or after Weinstein’s?

3.Shouldn’t their be some kind of DUE PROCESS before we decide to get our hand-pee on other people? (Kidding.)

4.Where is the CIVILITY these days? (Really kidding.)

5.Is Ron Perlman a cowboy of vigilante urine justice to be venerated, or just another famous older man covered in his own piss?

6.Is this the final clue that will lead Robert Mueller to the infamous Moscow hookers Trump “pee tape.”

It’s a lot to think about it. In the meantime, go ahead and give Perlman a hand.

Jenny Singer is the deputy lifestyle editor for the Forward. You can reach her at [email protected] or on Twitter @jeanvaljenny

Jenny Singer is a freelance writer with pieces in Vox, the Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Teen Vogue, and more. She was previously a staff writer at Glamour and the Forward, and she’s currently getting an MFA in nonfiction writing at the University of Iowa.

A message from our Publisher & CEO Rachel Fishman Feddersen

I hope you appreciated this article. Before you go, I’d like to ask you to please support the Forward’s award-winning, nonprofit journalism during this critical time.

The coming year promises to be filled with more complex and historic developments. We are entering an era where independent, fact-based Jewish journalism will be more important than ever. We need to be ready for whatever 2025 will bring, and with your help, we can be.

We’ve set a goal to raise $260,000 by December 31. That’s an ambitious goal, but one that will give us the resources we need to invest in the high quality news, opinion, analysis and cultural coverage that isn’t available anywhere else.

If you feel inspired to make an impact, now is the time to give something back. Join us as a member at your most generous level.

— Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO