'Don't anger the monster', part 2
Rowena Chiu was kept silent for 20 years by former film boss Harvey Weinstein.
Rowena Chiu thought that speaking up about her alleged sexual assault by Harvey Weinstein would end up with him in court. But instead she was pressured into signing an NDA so severe that she could tell no one, at times even fearing for her safety. Keeping this secret sent Rowena to a very dark place. But, as she tells Jo Fidgen, decades later the #MeToo movement set her free.
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