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hello from the Financial Times in London.

I'm Police Clark, and this is news in focus where we offer our insights into the stories that matter.

過去完了形

It's nearly two years to the day since The New York Times and The New Yorker published explosive reports revealing that more than a dozen women had accused Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood producer, off sexual assault and other crimes over a period of a least 30 years.

Scandal triggered the me to movement, and Mr Weinstein, co founder of the Miramax Entertainment Group, is now awaiting trial on rape and other sex crime charges, all of which he denies.

Chu is a former Miramax employees who kept quiet about her experiences with Mr Weinstein until a month ago.

She's here with me now, along with the FT is legal correspondent K P L.

And Ryan is going to tell her story and explain how a non disclosure agreement forced her to remain silent for more than 20 years and why she's decided to speak out now.

Romana, let's start at the beginning and tell us a little bit about your life before you met Harvey Weinstein.

So in 1998 I had only graduate from university two years previously.

Eso really working for Harvey was my first or second job out of college.

And what had you been studying in college?

I read English language and literature at Oxford.

And how come you decided to get into the film industry?

Um, I work in theater for a short while, but film seemed tohave more long term prospects.

And so I ended up international Creative Management, which is one of Hollywood's big talent agencies.

M that I was recruited to work for Harvey's office here in London, here in London.

And so you started working for him in 1998 in Miramax.

Uh, and you'd actually be warned, I think, by Zelda Perkins.

One of Mr Weinstein's assistance here in London that he could be a bit of a pest, and he was someone to look out for.

So I think that I have my interview with Zelda.

She had said that he was difficult to manage on that I was the handle him robustly on.

I think it is important to stress that, you know, pretty much every boss in the film industry is difficult to manage, whether man or woman.

So I, uh I didn't feel deterred by the fact that he would be hard to manage.

I think that's Ah, sort of part of the no business of being an assistant in the film industry.

It wasn't particularly clear how much that difficulty is to do with temper and how much of it was to do with sexual predator ation.

Um, and obviously that became unfortunate.

Okay, So you started working for him in 98.

Um, I was also an assistant, Charlie Weinstein.

Both Zelda and I were assisting him and I was learning the job from Zelda.

It is that it was our role when Harvey came over to London and then traveled across Europe to accompany him.

I'm either on to film festivals most typically, but also if films were shooting cross your we would also do that kind of travel.

And then the times in between when he was in the U.

We would be back at the office working on general office work.

Azzan reading scripts on dhe general work from Miramax.

And so when you first met him, how did he seem to you?

Um, he Ah, When I first met Harvey, it was at a screening room in Soho where we were looking at, Ah, most recent version of Shakespeare in love.

It's not like a typical encounter with the boss.

I'm Harvey Weinstein, and I hear your Romeo in joining my office.

I was asked to ah, you know, do exactly what he asked me to do on.

So I tell a story about how we sat in a screening room and he asked me to sit in front of him, and that was really my sort of audition, as it were for working for Harvey.

Well, it's, uh he asked me to sit in front of him during the screening on, um if I were to move in any way from sitting in front of him, he would yell at me, abusive of entry.

Um, but then you went to the Venice Film Festival and tell us what happened there.

The next month, I traveled to the Venice Film Festival on the Dove Il Film Festival, and we did the two festivals back to back.

Um, it's a fairly typical trip with Harvey.

You got a call from New York saying he's on his way, and your west off by limousine and private Jet Andi essentially as his assistant.

You do what you can to facilitate his time while he's there.

So that come your phone calls and organizing meetings and making sure that the flow in and out of the office, which is the same as the hotel room suite, is smooth, eh?

So that's really the job of the assistant, Um, on the night in question.

Ah, typically, what happens is elder being the more senior of the two Assistance would wake Harvey in the morning and work with him in the morning from about 6 a.m. To about 10 a.m. on her own.

And then I would come on duty on we would work together during the business of the day, which is typically from about 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. So it's a long day in the evening.

I would remain back at the hotel, which also doubled as our office reading scripts, sorting out paperwork, lining up calls and things like that and sell that would accompany him to the events of that evening.

Beer, too, did a dinner or a gardener or an award ceremony.

Okay, um so tells what happened on, um at the moment when he made some really quite extraordinary advances towards you.

Ah, assistance Life that you stay back in the hotel.

So when he got back from the dinner or the event, he would ask which scripts I had read and for my thoughts on those scripts.

And so we will spend a lot of the evening discussing the content of the scripts and what I thought was strong on what I thought was no particularly strong on that segue wade into more general discussions about my ambitions for being in the film industry, you know, at that time was just starting out in films, that he would talk a lot about the things that I'd want to do with my life and film.

And some of that would Segway into personal details is dead.

Who I was dating, who my boyfriend was at the time, what his aspirations were, and so on and so forth.

And so I think you know, there's a process where some of the discussion is professional and to do with the work that I was, therefore, which is assessing scripts and you know, fairly quickly the conversation turns to personal on dhe and also physical because, you know, as we all know, from the various accounts of things that have happened to people in different hotel rooms, there are requests for massages.

Harvey is frequently naked in these types of situations on, you know, it can become unpleasant and difficult quite quickly.

And was he naked when you were in the hotel room?

Walk in the door and I'm already in the hotel at the time when he returns from his event.

When he returns from his event in order to be comfortable, he gets into a robe, right, and then removes the road robe.

And you've written in The New York Times this'll month about your experience and how you decided that it would be a good idea to wear two pairs of tights.

Well, I think that, you know, there's a certain amount of controlling and harassment that comes with working for Harvey.

And, um, it's imprudent at the time to try to wear as many layers of clothes as possible because it buys you time if you need to get out of the room.

I mean, while he's strolling around naked, Uh, were you expected to sit there and just concentrate on the scripts and the work that you were doing or what was that is frequently what we did?

Ah, well, actually, he would only be naked in there as I understand it in the early mornings in the late evening.

So it's not something that he would do while two of us were in the room.