Harvey Weinstein rape victim actress Evgeniya Chernyshova introduces herself
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‘I’m tired of hiding’: The actress who put Harvey Weinstein behind bars for another 16 years at his Los Angeles trial comes forward to describe how he raped her in a Beverly Hills hotel room in 2013
- Evgeniya Chernyshova, who is Serbian, lived in Italy but visited Los Angeles in 2013.
- She met Weinstein at an event, then he showed up at her hotel room uninvited.
- Chernyshova is the ‘Jane Doe 1’ of the Weinstein trial in Los Angeles
The actress who was the victim of the rape in 2013 for which Harvey Weinstein was jailed yesterday has appeared one day after his sentence.
Evgeniya Chernyshova, now 43, was previously known only as ‘Jane Doe 1’, an unnamed Italian actress whom Weinstein attacked in Beverly Hills ten years ago.
Today, in an interview with the hollywood reportershe is speaking for the first time.
Weinstein was sentenced yesterday for an additional 16 years after a trial in Los Angeles. He was already serving a 23-year prison sentence in New York.
I’m tired of hiding. I want my life back. I am Evgeniya, I was raped. This is my story.
Evgeniya Chernyshova was previously only known as ‘Jane Doe 1’, an unnamed Italian actress whom Weinstein attacked in Beverly Hills ten years ago.
Weinstein is shown in court in October 2022. He was already serving a 23-year prison sentence in New York, but has now been given an additional 16 years behind bars.
‘Part of me is fearing for my future. But I’m proud of myself. If I keep hiding, I can’t do anything. I’ll be there with my pain,’ he said.
Chernyshova told the court how Weinstein raped her in 2013 after showing up uninvited at her hotel room at the Mr. C Beverly Hills Hotel.
Chernyshova grew up in Siberia but had moved to Italy and was living there with her husband at the time of the attack.
She was in Los Angeles on a business trip when Weinstein attacked her. She still lives in Los Angeles, where she runs a flower shop.
After showing up at her hotel room, he told her through the door: ‘Hi, I’m Harvey Weinstein. Open the door. We need to talk. I’m not going to fuck with you, I just have to talk to you.”
They had met only twice before; once in Rome, and earlier that day at an event.
Weinstein showed up at her hotel room and she let him in.
‘And that’s what I’ve regretted for the last 10 years: opening this door.
‘He just walked right through me and went straight to the chair. He said, “We’re just talking. It’s okay. Why are you so nervous?”
‘Something clicked, like a change in his eyes. I realized something was wrong,” she said.
He opened his pants and I became hysterical. I kept showing him pictures of my children, trying to convince him that “I have children, please don’t do that.”
But he did what he did. He assaulted me in the bedroom, then dragged me to the bathroom and there he raped me.
“I felt very, very dirty and like I had to die,” she said.
Chernyshova chose to remain anonymous throughout the trial in an effort to protect her children’s privacy.
Now, she says that she wishes she had introduced herself sooner.
‘I did it because I was embarrassed and humiliated. I thought it was a good decision to protect my children.
“But it was a horrible decision for me because they have isolated me from everyone. It’s not okay to go through this hell alone,’ she said.