article, and just looking at his face is
traumatizing. The work I do in thera-
py includes desensitizing myself to
those things so I can move around the
world normally.
SARAH ANN MASSE: If I heard his name
or saw him on television, I would get
sick to my stomach and anxious. It was
clearly right there under the surface,
ready to creep up anytime.
ZOË BROCK: I stopped trusting in the
powers that be. I see what money
and power can buy, and I find myself
doubting everyone’s motivations. I
don’t trust judges, or lawyers, or the
guy next to me in the café who smiles
at me, or a lady on the bus, because
they might be Mossad agents. Any last
shreds of naivete have been stripped
from me.
TOMI-ANN ROBERTS: I kept doing theater,
but I got my Ph.D. in psychology. For
the rest of my life, I’ve studied thesexual objectification and sexualiza-
tion of girls and women.
ALLY CANOSA: To have my name appear
in the press has been terrifying. I have
been trolled. I have been sent mes-
sages by men on social media telling
me I’m a whore, a slut, a gold digger. At
times it has been almost unbearable.
MELISSA SAGEMILLER NESIC: I didn’t work
for a year afterwards. There were a
couple casting directors who were fans
of mine, then suddenly they weren’t
fans anymore.
ROSANNA ARQUETTE: My heart is broken
that I am not able to do the work I
would love to do. I want to be able to
continue in the industry I’ve chosen.
SARAH ANN MASSE: I was blacklisted for
speaking up. I have not had an audi-
tion for a year and a half. Friends have
been in rooms where the name of
one of the silence breakers will come
up. And the casting director will go,“Oh, no, we can’t hire them. They’re
too political.” It’s frustrating because
Time’s Up and #MeToo were built
on the backs of all the men and
women who were brave enough to
come forward. And we’re paying the
price with our careers, our health,
our livelihood.The DECISIONALLY CANOSA: I arrived at a place where I
knew that if I didn’t speak up, I would
effectively be telling him that what
he did to me was okay. Choosing to
speak out was an incredibly difficult
decision. I entered into this knowing
full well that Harvey Weinstein would
do everything he could to discredit my
claims, hiding behind his enablers,
his money, his lawyers, and now his
insurance company.JESSICA BARTH: When you speak out,
people say, “You’re so brave.” Think
about that for a second. You are sex-
ually assaulted or harassed, and if
you go and you report that, it’s con-
sidered brave. What is the underly-
ing message there? It is that if you
speak out against these powerful
people, something bad will happen.
It should be that if somebody abuses
you, reporting them is the norm. It’s
no longer brave—it’s just what you do.
That’s my goal.
LYSETTE ANTHONY: When I saw those first
news reports, when I saw him being so
fucking patronizing about Ashley Judd,
I just thought, Oh, no, you don’t. And
that’s when I rang the police.
LOUISETTE GEISS: I’m the lead plaintiff
of the class action suit. It is my duty
as a human being who was raised by
good parents to stop this predator, so
that he does not do it to other people’schildren. He attacked a 16-year-old.
Need I say more?
MELISSA SAGEMILLER NESIC: When
this all broke out, it was a cathartic
moment for me. I wanted to tell my
story because I felt that people need-
ed to know how rampant it was. I
put my hat in the ring with the class
action suit to create a fund for women
who are not able or too afraid to
come forward.
ERIKA ROSENBAUM: I told my kids, “A long
time ago I was bullied in my business,
and I was ashamed. I didn’t stand up
to him at the time. Keeping the secret
made me feel really bad. Then one day,
years later, a bunch of other women
came out and said this guy bullied
them too. And that gave me the con-
fidence to speak up.” I told them you
should never ever keep a secret for a
bully. Because at the end of the day,
this is the story of a bully.KATHERINE KENDALL: It was time to tell
the truth. Because it hurt more to stay
silent than it did to speak out.
ROSE McGOWAN: The soft young woman
I was died after being raped by Harvey
Weinstein. There wasn’t a funeral for
that girl. I had to carry that dead part in
me around for years until finally it came
time to scream it out by going public.
PAULA WILLIAMS: One of my best friends
was like, “Yeah, we’ve all been through
that, Paula. What’s the big freaking
deal? Put your big-girl pants on and
hold your head up high.” And it’s like,
no, I want to stop this. I don’t want the
next generation to have to feel bullied
or judged or shamed. We already put
on the tough face; we already pre-
tended it didn’t bother us. I don’t want
to do it anymore.
KAJA SOKOLA: It was a difficult decision
to go back to these moments again
because they were so painful. But“It can’t all rest on his conviction. True justicemeans making sure his enablers will