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A key whistleblower of the sexual abuse trial against Harvey Weinstein in New York, Jessica Mann, suffered a "panic attack" today while testifying at the end of a tough day of defense interrogations, which previously accused her of "manipulating" the producer to advance his career.
The day ended early and Mann's testimony was postponed after he burst into tears inconsolably when he read a personal letter he sent to a former boyfriend, Eddy, in which he explained that he was "sexually assaulted" in the past and that he feared being "rejected" for "mistakes he had made in his life."
In the text, dated May 2014, the former actress talked about the "dynamics she had with Harvey" Weinstein and how "hopeless" she felt due to her "failed relationships", indicating that "escaping" from her home was a "turning point" and suffering from emotional problems related to his father.
With tremors in his voice and visibly affected, Mann read: "Harvey gave me strength, he always offered me help in a way that my parents didn't. Harvey was my father's age and gave me the approval I needed."
Judge James Burke offered him a break, but on his return he began to hyperventilate and said he had a "panic attack", so he ended the session.
Until that moment, the complainant had responded with integrity for about five hours to an exhaustive interrogation in which the producer's defender, Donna Rotunno, presented a string of affectionate emails exchanged between them until 2016 and that are the basis of her argument .
Rotunno tried to discredit the crude testimony that Mann made last Friday about his alleged violation by Weinstein in 2013 in a New York hotel and his subsequent relationship, arguing that he slept with him "for the benefit of his career" and that he "manipulated" to break through in Hollywood.
Mann, whose complaint of rape is an integral part of the case against Weinstein, described the alleged abuses and even the genitals of the defendant last Friday with great nervousness , to whom he said to send flattering messages for months to keep his "fragile" ego.
The former actress, who today revealed she had no lawyer, answered many of the incisive questions with insecurity - "I don't remember, I don't know, I think so, well" - and outlined in greater detail a sexual relationship that began in a consensual way with non-forced oral sex but it ended up being the opposite, he said Friday.
He also referred to a rough incident mentioned in that testimony and recalled that once, while showering together, Weinstein asked him if he knew what a "golden shower" was and, given his refusal, he allegedly urinated on it, so He walked away with "disgust" and "shock."
Weinstein, 67, who faces a maximum of life imprisonment if found guilty of the five sexual crimes charged by the Prosecutor's Office, closed his eyes several times throughout the testimony, apparently giving headings, although he was alert if He spoke directly of him.
"I interacted with my abuser because of what I believed in my mind and because of the perception of the society in which I lived. It was always best for my interests that things between us were fine," said the complainant. But Mann argued that the more he realized that "he was being used", the more he tried "not to have sexual encounters with him" so he made excuses or "negotiated", to the point that "he masturbated" by holding her, according to declared.
Regarding a message in which he told the producer that he wanted to introduce him to his mother, he said that she was "pressing" because "she knew there was something wrong", and referring to other emails in which she was affectionate declared I didn't want Weinstein to see her as a "threat."
Mann, who claimed to be an "insecure person" on the dates of the accusations, when he was a twenty-year-old woman, argued that the sexual relationship he had with Weinstein and that led to two alleged violations in 2013 and 2014 "was the deepest secret he had " and he didn't tell anyone.
"Did you manipulate Harvey?" The lawyer asked Mann repeatedly, who once, after thinking carefully, replied: "As I managed to prosecute (the alleged abuses) and survive, yes, I suppose."
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