The Harvey Weinstein sex crimes trial continued Friday with a crucial witness – a woman whose rape accusation is a central part of the charges against him.
continued Friday with a crucial witness – a woman whose rape accusation is a central part of the charges against him and whose testimony provoked occasional gasps in court.
"I was panicked, because my worst nightmare was about to happen," she said."I was very angry inside and very scared. I gave up at that point." "I would usually try to find something based in truth," she said, adding,"I can't answer that question with yes or no."In opening statements prosecutors said Weinstein assaulted Mann multiple times in 2013, including in Los Angeles, but he is charged in connection with one encounter at the New York hotel.
"I didn’t want to go up there, but I thought I was helping him by getting away from all this attention. I didn’t have a sense that anything bad was coming, but it was odd," she said. "I didn’t think with my friend there it’d be anything bad,” Mann testified. But once there she said, Weinstein called her into the bedroom, told her friend they'd just be a minute and closed the door. She described tussling with him as he became angrier.
She said she was confused about that but"made a decision" to be in a relationship with him."I entered into what I thought was going to be a real relationship with him, and it was extremely degrading from that point on," she said.
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