But it was also a safe environment for me to be in because nobody was going to care or be interested in my previous life. Journalist Megan Twohey says she believes Perkins and Chiu took a great risk in speaking out. "And so in that way it's almost an insidious, gradual path towards, you know, asking for more and more overt sexual favours. As with many Asian women, this meant that I was visible as a sex object, invisible as a person. Comments are welcome while open. And it came to a point where I tried to kill myself a couple of times. Other survivors have said things like “I’ve been waiting for this knock on my door for 27 years,” but for me, I lived in terror of that knock. So I'm in a very different position, I think, than a lot of the women who suffered a direct trauma. We could only visit our agreements in our attorney's office. In 1998, I had recently graduated from Oxford with a degree in English literature, and my one ambition was to succeed in the film industry. Do you think Weinstein's legal team might come after you one day? The NDA legally prohibited her from speaking to anyone about the incident — including Chiu. Maybe I'm wrong. It had been such a difficult and defining and traumatic event.". On the second night in Venice, Chiu told CBC's The National in a recent interview, their work began as it had the previous evening, discussing scripts.

I don't know. Now, she wants to stop their misuse, How sexual assault trial could play out for Harvey Weinstein, What's changed to protect women since Harvey Weinstein's accusers went public? Chiu says it was the enforced silence that weighed heaviest on her life. We also put in place that if he made a similar type of settlement or agreement in the ensuing few years, that Miramax would have to inform Disney, who were Miramax's parent company. Chiu says Weinstein tried to rape her at the Venice International Film Festival. At one point, fearful that my head was blocking his view, I attempted to shuffle over. But ... everybody in the U.K. film industry knew me very well and knew me as Harvey's sort of right-hand person in the U.K. and Europe. Some of the things [we asked for] we lost during the negotiations. Rowena Chiu: ‘The Harvey Weinstein survivors we know about are the tip of the iceberg ... and was working as his assistant when she reported Weinstein to her line manager, Zelda Perkins. Perkins says what followed were long, "intimidating" sessions in the offices of Weinstein's lawyers Allen & Overy, the leading law firm in London. Chiu alleges that she and Weinstein were in … That agreement was unethical and egregious on every level … to me that is far more disturbing than Harvey's behaviour. We were two young women, with limited resources, stranded in a foreign country. "It is a serious risk to break a settlement. Almost 20 years later, the New York Times contacted Zelda Perkins and Rowena Chiu. He denies any allegations of non-consensual sex.