Lysette Anthony: I answered the door. Harvey Weinstein pushed me inside and raped me in my own.....

[steve2470]

Lysette Anthony: I answered the door. Harvey Weinstein pushed me inside and raped me in my own hallway

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/lysette-anthony-i-answered-the-door-harvey-weinstein-pushed-me-inside-and-raped-me-in-my-own-hallway-hx8tk2ccq

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The British actress Lysette Anthony says she was raped by Weinstein after he turned up at her door one morning
JAMES SHAW/BRITISH SOAP AWARDS


It was about 15 years ago that my close friend Lysette Anthony told me that Harvey Weinstein had raped her. She said she had told only two other people about the assault. It was an ugly secret hidden inside her like a tumour. Last week, summoning up her courage, she reported the Hollywood producer to the Metropolitan police.

The moment I first heard of the ­­alle­gations being made about Weinstein’s preda­tory sexual behaviour, I thought of Lysette. As if telepathically, she rang me from Liverpool where she stars in the popular Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks.

She said she felt emotional and ­conflicted about going to the police. A few years ago she had been embroiled in an ugly court case against her son’s father and the case had been thrown out on a procedural hitch because she had ­muddled a key date.

By her own admission, dates are not her strong point and she was afraid of what she might be put through if she had to endure another lengthy and harrowing legal process. Yet the conclusion she came to was this: “I can’t stand by and see all these brave women tell the truth and not stand up alongside them.”

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

1. Good for her! Hope it inspires more women to come forward & more scoundrels' heads will roll!!

[anneboleyn]

2. I remember her from the 80s. A stunningly beautiful actress with much talent. I hope he doesn't

escape the legal ramifications for these crimes -- there must be hundreds of young actresses and models he victimized who were terrified to tell the truth for years.

[Aristus]

3. I had such an immense crush on her. She starred in a series of videos for Bryan Adams.

She was gorgeous, and very appealing. I always wondered why she never became a superstar.

Weinstein pulling a "you'll never work in this town again if you tell..." - ?

God, what a monster...

[Orrex]

4. I commend her courage in going public about this attack

How many more survivors has Weinstein left in his vile wake?

[Ilsa]

5. He needs to be in prison,

Not rehab for sex addiction. This is violence against women. He needs to spend a decade in custody.

[steve2470]

6. per BBC, two other British women have now come forward nt

[BigmanPigman]

7. Is this what the legal system is like in a lot of countries?

They make it almost impossible for victims of sexual crimes to be taken seriously and prosecuted. The emotional and mental BS a victim of sexual abuse/assault has to go through to be even remotely taken seriously prevents many from prosecuting their attackers.