The New Yorker: In March, Annabella Sciorra, who received an Emmy nomination for her role in “The Sopranos,” agreed to talk with me for a story I was reporting about Harvey Weinstein. Speaking by phone, I explained that two sources had told me that she had a serious allegation regarding the producer. Sciorra, however, told me that Weinstein had never done anything inappropriate. Perhaps she just wasn’t his type, she said, with an air of what seemed to be studied nonchalance. But, two weeks ago, after The New Yorker published the story, in which thirteen women accused Weinstein of sexual assault and harassment, Sciorra called me. The truth, she said, was that she had been struggling to speak about Weinstein for more than twenty years. She was still living in fear of him, and slept with a baseball bat by her bed. Weinstein, she told me, had violently raped her in the early nineteen-nineties, and, over the next several years, sexually harassed her repeatedly.
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One of the things that I think The New Yorker does well is write very powerful stories with important people. This article was insightful in Annabella Sciorra’s sexual harassment as well as Daryl Hannah’s and the repercussions that could occur if women were not compliant with Weinstein’s “requests.” It is beyond awful that these women were held back in their careers because they choose not to follow the sexual advances of this pig of a man. While I know the millennial generation is very open and very comfortable confronting an assortment of issues - I still feel culture shock. It’s really hard for me to comprehend that a producer would actually prevent women from having successful careers if they do not have sex with him. It makes me sick to think about. It’s so important that women in the industry speak up.
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