The disgraced former film mogul told Rowena Chiu, whose identity as one of his alleged victims was first revealed last month, that he'd 'he'd never had a Chinese girl' before he tried to force himself on her, she says.
reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey last month, with her story included in their book. Chiu says Weinstein tried to rape her at the Venice Film Festival. Unable to find support among senior executives she and colleague Zelda Perkins reported Weinstein, Chiu signed a restrictive nondisclosure agreement and struggled with depression and attempted suicide as she stayed silent, not even telling her husband about the experience.
"After hours of fending off his chitchat, flattery, requests for massages and a bath, ultimately I found myself pushed back against the bed," she says. "I’d worn two pairs of tights for protection, and tried to appease him by taking one of them off and letting him massage me, but it hadn’t worked. He’d taken off the other pair and I was terrified my underwear would be next. Harvey moved in: Please, he told me, just one thrust, and it will all be over.
"When we began attempts to report Harvey to his superiors or the police, multiple senior individuals acted to shut us down," Chiu writes. "Some outright laughed in our faces. The message was always the same: Who would ever believe us over the most powerful man in Hollywood?" Chiu was unable to find another job for six months and had to take a position at Miramax in Hong Kong, which she suspects Weinstein "created to keep me in his orbit.""I lived in constant fear of Harvey’s abuse, control and power; that the story would come back to haunt me; that I would inadvertently slip up on my promise to never speak of this," she writes.
What prompted Chiu to finally open up was another key moment in the #MeToo movement, when Brett Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford delivered her heavily covered testimony against the then-Supreme Court nominee last year. "I was still unresolved about going public. But meeting others who’d had similar experiences created a seismic shift within me," Chiu writes.
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