Harvey Weinstein says he was 'punched' amid life on Riker's Island

Harvey Weinstein is pulling the curtain back on his life behind bars in his first sit-down interview post-arrest.

Harvey Weinstein is pulling the curtain back on his life behind bars.

The disgraced movie mogul, who is currently serving a multi-year sentence in New York for charges of sexual assault, spoke with The Hollywood Reporter for the first sit-down interview since his arrest. In it, he detailed life on Riker's Island, the notorious water-surrounded prison in the Bronx, where he's been held for over a year.

Weinstein, 73, told the outlet that he spends 23 hours a day in his cell, gets wheeled out a half hour a day for air, and only has contact with guards and nurses. There's no socializing in his wing.

"It's hell," he told The Hollywood Reporter. "It was different when I was in state prison. I got up in the morning, I had breakfast, I saw friends, I spoke to people. We all watched TV together. I've been begging to go to state, but the DA's office says, 'Because you have a trial upcoming, you stay at Rikers. We want to keep an eye on you.' They kept an eye on me for 19 months now. I don't know where they think I'm going."

In June, Weinstein was convicted in a New York sex-crimes retrial that rehashed some of the defining accusations of his original #MeToo case and conviction.