The woman whose testimony put predator Harvey Weinstein behind bars for an additional 16 years has until now been known only as “Jane Doe 1.” But now, she’s ready to tell her story.
But now, she’s ready to tell her story., former actress and mother of three Evgenia Chernyshova revealed that the disgraced media mogul and serial sexual predator had raped her in a hotel room in Beverly Hills in 2013, opening up about the trauma she suffered and her struggle for justice in the years afterward.
Chernyshova said she got the news while in the car with her 23-year-old daughter and 16-year-old son. “I believe all of the victims who testified,” Chernyshova said. “All of them. And I want to say this—this is not only my victory, this is our victory.” When Weinstein entered the room, Chernyshova said she saw that “something clicked, like a change in his eyes.” She became increasingly frightened as she tried to explain to Weinstein that she was married, had children, and was not interested in him.
It was a conversation with her daughter, Maria, and a bond over shared trauma that finally drove Evgeniya to come forward with her story, she said. When Maria, then 16, told her mother that she had been sexually assaulted by a boy at school, the two realized just how much they understood each other and made a momentous agreement.
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