A erstwhile character who accused Harvey Weinstein of raping her successful a New York City edifice cried connected nan witnesser guidelines Monday arsenic she recalled nan alleged decade-old onslaught — and nan disgusting find she recovered successful nan trash afterward.
Jessica Mann, 38, returned to Manhattan Supreme Court, 5 years aft she delivered schematic grounds at nan disgraced Hollywood producer’s first activity crimes trial.
The ex-actress’ answers astatine nan ongoing retrial were surgery by sobs arsenic she elaborate Weinstein forcing her to person activity astatine nan Doubletree Hotel successful Midtown connected March 18, 2013.
After nan alleged rape, Mann said she she recovered an erection-inducing supplier needle apparently utilized by Weinstein successful nan garbage tin pinch a puzzling explanation — “necro-something” — that she later Googled, yielding a horrific answer.

“I recovered connected Google that it fundamentally meant ‘dead penis,’ and you inject it and it tin only beryllium utilized a definite magnitude of times back-to-back complete a definite time,” she told nan jury.
“I was freaked out. Did I get exposed to something?” Mann remembered asking herself. “It was scary.”
Mann testified she later continued a consensual narration pinch Weinstein — whom she referred to arsenic “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde because sometimes he validated maine truthful much.”
“Everyone said going to Hollywood was nan devil’s playground,” she testified. “He told maine I was beautiful and encouraged maine and that meant a batch to me.”
But astatine different times, nan powerful shaper showed his acheronian side, Mann said.
“There were times… I wouldn’t want to do thing and I felt for illustration I was conscionable being utilized for sex,” she testified. “The connection ‘no’ was a trigger for him. This different characteristic – I called it ‘The Monster side’ – would travel out.”
Weinstein, 73, wearing a filthy charcoal suit, sat successful a wheelchair arsenic Mann haltingly told Assistant District Attorney Matthew Colangelo that she feared nary 1 would judge her.

She said she was anxious astir Weinstein’s narration pinch powerful people, specified arsenic erstwhile President Bill Clinton.
“I retrieve imagining if I ever said thing he would telephone his friend and nan Secret Service would travel get me,” she said. “I don’t know, I had each these ideas.”
Mann’s grounds mostly rehashed her past stint connected nan witnesser guidelines successful 2020, erstwhile she recounted that Weinstein’s genitalia were truthful “deformed” she pitied him.
Jurors yet recovered Weinstein blameworthy of third-degree rape for an onslaught connected Mann, but recovered him not blameworthy of first-degree rape.
Weinstein’s condemnation was overturned past year, starring to nan retrial.
Former teen exemplary Kaja Sokola and erstwhile TV accumulation assistant Miriam “Mimi” Haley person some besides testified successful nan proceedings that Weinstein raped them.
He has pleaded not blameworthy and faces up to 25 years down bars if convicted.