Candace Owens - Harvey Speaks： The Project Runway Production

00:00:00.000 All right, guys. Happy Monday. Sorry we are running a few minutes late. There are so many pieces when you're doing this series that you just want to make sure that you dot your I's and cross your T's. So sometimes we take a couple of extra minutes to get everything going. But as always, I promise you it will be well worth the wait. And I am so excited to bring forth this series. I've already explained to you why it's so special to me, mainly because the Me Too movement, I believe, has become an evil manifestation and I have three sons.

00:00:25.960 So let's jump right into it. Welcome to episode one of Harvey Speaks.

00:00:42.000 All right, guys, so where should we begin? I'm thinking that we should begin with the theater kid archetype. OK, because if there's one thing that I've realized throughout my career in politics and in the media, it's that there is this theater,

00:00:55.940 kid archetype that exists. It's real people who dedicate a large portion of their lives to the pursuit of the camera, wanting to make it in Hollywood, wanting to make it as an actor or an actress. Maybe you start as a drama kid.

00:01:09.860 I'm not sure. I'm not certain. And I will take your guys opinions on this, that that thirst ever dies within them. And of course, I'm generalizing here. But I find that when I come across these people, now that we're older, they seem to forever be on a quest in the back of their minds for their big break.

00:01:30.120 Like, it could still happen, even if they're in their 30s, their 40s, their 50s, their 60s. And so the question then becomes, what happens to these individuals when it never arrives?

00:01:39.640 OK, I want you to think about that. What happens if there's a woman who spends a decade or even more of her life trying to make it in Hollywood, only to realize that she's failed?

00:01:48.260 Maybe she was even that girl who, before she left her hometown, quietly mocked in the back of her mind the unambitious other women, right?

00:01:58.780 The girls from her hometown who married off at the age of 20 and then they immediately started having families.

00:02:04.500 Maybe in her youth, she mocked them because, you know, she knew that she had something special.

00:02:09.100 She was going to make it. She was leaving her hometown.

00:02:11.100 And I think about that because, interestingly enough, in my first book, I wrote an entire chapter about a friend that I used to have who was exactly that sort of an individual.

00:02:21.200 And I spoke about her because she was an aspiring actress in Brooklyn.

00:02:25.000 And we met interning and just kind of chose different paths in our life.

00:02:29.980 I was kind of just wanting to get myself out of student loan debt, willing to take any and every job.

00:02:36.000 And she was just sort of this free spirit.

00:02:39.540 She described herself as a free spirit and she came from another country and it was all about attending the right parties, meeting the right directors.

00:02:46.400 She was just so much cooler than me, you know.

00:02:48.620 She was so much cooler than me and more confident than me.

00:02:52.480 And she was gorgeous.

00:02:53.820 She was prettier than me.

00:02:55.540 And for a while, it seemed to be working for her.

00:02:58.280 She, you know, men fell at her feet.

00:03:00.700 She got these small acting gigs that she wanted.

00:03:03.900 And then as we grew older, and obviously in Hollywood, older is even when you're young, she stopped getting those small roles.

00:03:12.700 And I sensed in her a bitterness, a bitterness at the different decisions that I had made in my life.

00:03:18.180 And unfortunately, our friendship ended.

00:03:20.020 But I'll never forget that one of our last conversations that we had was actually about the Me Too movement.

00:03:24.540 And she was so invested in it.

00:03:26.800 She was like, you don't understand.

00:03:28.060 Like, this has to happen.

00:03:29.300 And I had wondered, even though I was listening to her, whether or not her investment in the Me Too movement was actually her trying to reconcile decisions that she had made in her past.

00:03:39.720 Decisions that she had made with producers and people that she thought that, well, if she slept with, they might lead to her getting her big break.

00:03:48.640 Anyways, that's all somewhat anecdotal.

00:03:51.620 It's real, but anecdotal.

00:03:53.200 And the reason that we're here today is because we're speaking about Harvey Weinstein.

00:03:57.620 Because we all remember nothing and everything about this case.

00:04:01.760 It is very strange.

00:04:02.860 There was so much information that we couldn't dilute it at that time.

00:04:08.060 We for sure remember that it began with an explosion, an explosion of journalists and then way too many women to count that were making allegations.

00:04:20.860 Here is just a small snippet.

00:04:23.120 The similarities between these stories were uncanny.

00:04:26.200 A lot of use of showers, a lot of exposing himself.

00:04:29.980 And as I said, in three of these cases, allegations of rape.

00:04:33.660 Then he comes back out and he's fully naked.

00:04:35.340 And he just kept asking me to watch him masturbate.

00:04:38.900 On everything.

00:04:39.540 I'm a famous guy.

00:04:40.420 I'm feeling very uncomfortable right now.

00:04:42.180 He's coming now.

00:04:43.340 Five minutes.

00:04:44.400 Don't ruin your friendship with me for five minutes.

00:04:46.920 This sort of behavior is normalized and accepted for decades in this industry.

00:04:54.260 Decades, she said.

00:04:55.700 And it was, of course, then this very big watershed moment that was going to bring down Harvey Weinstein.

00:05:02.320 Goodness, you guys, he was arguably the most powerful man in Hollywood.

00:05:07.300 And now we had upwards of a hundred women who were claiming that they had been sexually abused, harassed or even raped, which is why he's in prison today.

00:05:17.120 But I got to tell you something right away.

00:05:19.740 That list, that long list of women who found the cameras and spoke out and said that things happened and you don't really remember whether or not he denied it.

00:05:28.900 That list significantly dwindled by the time we got into the courtroom.

00:05:33.020 And then even when we were in the courtroom, it dwindled even more.

00:05:36.340 However, and I'll tell you why this is one of the very many compelling aspects of this case, how they were able to sort through the women who were just outright lying, meaning women who had definitively never even slept with Harvey Weinstein.

00:05:50.420 Some women who he alleges he never even met from the women who had at the very least been intimate with him.

00:05:57.960 OK, I'll tell you why, because, of course, when people realize that someone's going down, if you're were a struggling person who wants to make a quick buck and you knew this empire was going to crash, you might be willing to come in for a quick payday.

00:06:11.340 And what better way to do that? You could just cry and cry and then describe something terrible that happened.

00:06:17.880 Your Honor, he made me fondle his testicles, you know, tears streaming down your face.

00:06:24.320 And these sorts of moments happened and Harvey's lawyers would give each other a look, a knowing smirk, a high five, realizing that, yeah, this no one's going to believe this woman.

00:06:37.820 And I'll tell you why. The answer to that is because Harvey Weinstein didn't have any testicles.

00:06:44.640 He doesn't have any testicles. I told you guys, this is a strange tale with many twists and turns, and this is just one of them.

00:06:52.580 But what became a crucial element of the Harvey Weinstein case, something that Harvey probably had considered a curse when it happened to him back in 1999, wound up being something of a blessing to his very many court proceedings.

00:07:06.420 Thanks. I want you to check out this headline. OK, it reads Harvey Weinstein's abnormal testicles are key focus of final arguments in trial.

00:07:14.120 I am not kidding. This is real. And I'll tell you, the story goes that back in 1999, Harvey Weinstein was diagnosed with something known as Fournier's gangrene.

00:07:24.200 OK, it is a extremely rare, but a life threatening infection that impacts the genitals with a rapid tissue destruction.

00:07:34.200 Essentially, we're talking about is necrosis, right? It's necrosis. The tissues are dying.

00:07:38.520 And I can show you this excerpt from a Variety article. It says during the trial, prosecutors revealed to the jury that Weinstein underwent surgery in 1999 for Fournier's gangrene, which required doctors to remove some of his scrotum.

00:07:52.380 That surgery caused pretty noticeable scarring because of an infection. His testicles were actually taken from his scrotum and put into his inner thighs.

00:08:02.220 So his testicles were removed and put into his inner thighs in 1999.

00:08:10.060 I know you're thinking, Candice, are you making this up? How could this be? Yes, that happened.

00:08:14.220 So the list of credible allegations had significantly dwindled.

00:08:20.540 OK, and like I told you, really, this came down in New York to two women.

00:08:25.500 As we told you, Harvey Weinstein was sentenced in 2020 to 23 years total in New York.

00:08:32.420 But 20 of those years for criminal sexual assault in the first degree stemmed from accusations that were made from a production assistant who worked on Project Runway.

00:08:44.840 Her name is Miriam, otherwise known as Mimi Haley.

00:08:50.180 OK, so 20 years, fellas, 20 years, ladies listening.

00:08:55.480 You've got sons, you've got husbands, we've got brothers.

00:08:58.020 It's got to be horrific, right? If we're throwing the book and we're saying basically die in prison, because that's what that means.

00:09:05.520 You should die in prison. Harvey Weinstein, what she lived through must have been terrible.

00:09:11.400 I'll tell you right off the bat that Mimi Haley was born in Helsinki in 1977 and she grew up in Sweden.

00:09:18.800 So she was not an American citizen. That little tidbit will become somewhat relevant in a little bit.

00:09:23.200 And the way that she was introduced to the public was through a lot of tears.

00:09:28.500 It was a press conference in 2017.

00:09:31.000 She announced her allegations against Harvey Weinstein next to none other than Gloria Allred.

00:09:38.100 And I'm going to be honest with you guys.

00:09:39.280 It's hard to listen to her recapping what Harvey put her through.

00:09:43.080 So let's let's take a listen to Mimi.

00:09:44.620 It was not long, though, before he was all over me making sexual advances.

00:09:50.120 I told him no, no, no.

00:09:52.620 But he insisted.

00:09:55.460 And then I said, I'm on my period.

00:09:58.460 There is no way this is going to happen.

00:10:00.440 Please stop.

00:10:02.740 He wouldn't take he wouldn't take no for an answer and backed me into a room which was not lit,

00:10:09.140 but looked like a kid's bedroom with kids drawings on the wall.

00:10:12.680 He held me down on the bed.

00:10:15.900 I tried to get away or tried to get him off of me and kept asking him to stop.

00:10:21.540 But it was impossible.

00:10:23.340 He was extremely persistent and physically overpowering.

00:10:28.580 So you heard her here.

00:10:29.580 She said, no, no, no.

00:10:30.740 He was overpowering.

00:10:32.040 This is how this happened to her.

00:10:33.800 And by the way, Gloria Allred, I got to I got to give it to that woman.

00:10:36.640 She has really perfected the craft of ambulance chasing.

00:10:40.360 Right.

00:10:41.480 Using press conferences to persuade the masses with a lot of sobbing.

00:10:45.680 Right.

00:10:45.840 And it doesn't really matter at that point whether or not what she says in the press conference

00:10:51.180 is going to be the same thing that she says in the courtroom because people are paying attention

00:10:55.400 to the press conference and probably not going to follow this into the courtroom.

00:10:58.700 And I got to tell you that as detailed as that press conference seems, Mimi does, in fact, leave out some important details.

00:11:07.620 And she also edits some details when she gets on the stand, which we will get to.

00:11:13.260 But the important thing to know is that Harvey was indicted by a grand jury in 2018.

00:11:18.960 And Mimi's testimony was therefore taken sometime before then.

00:11:23.480 But by the time that she hit the stand, she in 2020 had edited that testimony a little bit.

00:11:30.840 Even from the grand jury indictment to the stand, there were some things that had changed.

00:11:35.760 She had included some epithets, which we'll get into.

00:11:39.520 So first, we should just get into how she and Harvey met.

00:11:43.020 This is all according to Mimi.

00:11:44.200 This is her story.

00:11:44.920 She first met Harvey Weinstein back in 2004, and then she approached him two years later in 2006 at the Cannes Film Festival

00:11:55.940 because she was looking for work in the industry after her mentor, quote-unquote mentor,

00:12:01.280 famed London producer Michael White had suffered a stroke and lost his business.

00:12:06.140 So that's her.

00:12:07.260 You can see her young, looking young and beautiful.

00:12:09.800 And there she is with Michael White, a producer in London who she said became her mentor.

00:12:17.160 Now, it's worth mentioning that by mentor, she means that after she met him once and they exchanged numbers,

00:12:25.220 she visited him and decided to stay with him during that visit in London.

00:12:31.000 And you can see she looks young.

00:12:32.340 He looks quite old.

00:12:33.380 Yeah, she was in her 20s.

00:12:34.860 He was in her 60s.

00:12:36.040 She told this, by the way, to Vanity Fair, that he then became a father figure to her

00:12:40.880 and that they enjoyed a, quote-unquote, unconventional platonic relationship.

00:12:45.880 Okay, that's how she spent her 20s beside that guy, Michael.

00:12:49.720 Brushing shoulders because he was a big producer with Kate Moss, the Rolling Stones, Princess Diana,

00:12:55.920 at her father figure's house.

00:12:59.200 And then she went on to become his personal assistant.

00:13:03.000 Like I said, he then had a stroke, okay?

00:13:04.780 Her father figure, boss, man, had a stroke.

00:13:09.580 And so with Michael White no longer able to provide that kind of support,

00:13:13.560 she decided to perhaps look for another father figure.

00:13:16.540 I'm not sure how to contextualize that, but she approached Harvey Weinstein at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006.

00:13:22.720 Now, I want to be clear that in 2006, Mimi would have been just about to turn 30 years old, okay?

00:13:30.940 In other words, she was not a Hollywood spring chicken.

00:13:33.720 I think that's really important.

00:13:35.200 You've seen throughout this podcast, I've always tried to stress what a woman's age is

00:13:39.500 because it's important to differentiate between someone who's, you know, 17 years old,

00:13:44.140 someone who's 15 years old, someone who is 30 years old,

00:13:48.620 a fully formed adult woman because it changes the context

00:13:52.960 where it makes you, I guess, think about how helpless and unsure and uncertain they were.

00:13:58.640 And yeah, Mimi was about to turn 30.

00:14:00.960 This is, that's where the story begins with Harvey Weinstein.

00:14:03.320 She was not in her early 20s anymore.

00:14:06.460 So her story goes that Harvey invited her after she approached him

00:14:11.340 to meet him at his company's hotel in Cannes, the Majestic Hotel.

00:14:16.980 And right away, it was a horrible experience, okay?

00:14:20.300 She was humiliated because she got to his hotel room

00:14:23.560 and they have a little bit of conversation.

00:14:27.400 And then he does this really crazy thing.

00:14:29.080 He asks her for a massage.

00:14:31.480 And she's confused because she's thinking she's coming up here to talk about

00:14:35.200 potentially getting a job, talking about career aspects.

00:14:38.360 And she instead offers to call downstairs to get him a massage.

00:14:44.080 And then he turns it around and he says that he instead wants to give her a massage.

00:14:50.540 And she's humiliated.

00:14:51.880 Like I said, she testified that she was so humiliated

00:14:54.420 that when she left that hotel room, she broke down crying.

00:14:58.720 Yeah, that's not what she was expecting when she went into this guy's hotel room.

00:15:02.360 Which is why what happens next gets interesting.

00:15:04.760 Now, her memory is super fuzzy on how exactly it happened.

00:15:09.600 But she then gets a temporary job on Project Runway,

00:15:14.280 which was at that time being produced by the Weinstein Company.

00:15:17.800 And to be clear, they had already been filming this series.

00:15:21.840 They were deep into production.

00:15:23.320 And reminding you again that she is not an American citizen.

00:15:26.980 So he hooks her up with this job.

00:15:30.400 Again, who knows?

00:15:32.020 She doesn't know.

00:15:32.400 Did I speak to his assistant?

00:15:33.140 I don't know why.

00:15:33.880 I don't remember any of this.

00:15:35.360 And she begins working for as a production assistant on the show for several weeks.

00:15:40.280 And she's paid in cash because her visa did not allow her to work in the United States.

00:15:45.760 Shooting then wraps.

00:15:48.040 And by the way, while she's living in New York,

00:15:50.780 while she moved to New York for this opportunity,

00:15:52.620 she's living with a friend of hers in the East Village.

00:15:55.380 And after shooting wraps,

00:15:56.920 she reaches out to Harvey to thank him for the opportunity.

00:16:00.460 So despite this really uncomfortable, humiliating experience in his hotel room,

00:16:05.040 she gets this job, but then she just wants to thank him for the opportunity.

00:16:08.320 And he invites her for a drink at the Mercer Hotel in New York City.

00:16:14.760 And she describes that experience as very pleasant.

00:16:18.260 She met him on June 26th, 2026, at the lobby, in the lobby of the Mercer Hotel.

00:16:24.720 And she testified that he was, quote, very respectful, even charming.

00:16:28.420 He offered at that time to have her return to Project Runway the following season.

00:16:35.500 And the next day, on the 27th, she's going to his office to see somebody else.

00:16:43.280 And she then also stops by his office.

00:16:46.260 And he gives her a book that she should read.

00:16:48.860 And then he offers to give her a ride home to her apartment after that meeting at his offices.

00:16:54.840 And he also says to her, like, you should come on my private jet.

00:16:59.560 We can go to Paris the next week.

00:17:01.920 We can attend this fashion show.

00:17:03.200 You can stay with me.

00:17:04.220 You can stay at the Ritz.

00:17:05.040 And she says that she declines that offer.

00:17:08.700 They get out of the car.

00:17:10.020 His assistant, by the way, male assistant, is also in the car.

00:17:12.840 He's like, oh, this is where you live.

00:17:14.060 This is the building that you live in the East Village.

00:17:15.500 She's like, yeah.

00:17:16.860 I guess Harvey was just paying attention to the layout or something, at least.

00:17:21.120 That's what you're left when you get through the transcripts.

00:17:23.300 That's kind of the impression that you get, that Harvey was kind of just monitoring and

00:17:28.280 really wanted to know where this young woman lived.

00:17:31.300 She said that she didn't want to go to Paris.

00:17:32.760 But she says that he didn't take no for an answer.

00:17:35.900 And she testified that she had no intention of doing so.

00:17:39.820 But in an effort to be polite, she said to him that she would let him know.

00:17:44.020 Maybe I will go to Paris.

00:17:45.340 And that Weinstein calls her repeatedly.

00:17:49.080 And then later on, he comes back.

00:17:52.660 He shows up at her apartment for the second time that day.

00:17:58.160 And now we're going to jump right into this court transcript.

00:18:01.580 I can only imagine this is the most powerful man in the world.

00:18:04.580 And he's going to this East Village apartment.

00:18:07.120 So the question that she gets asked on the stand is, did you act in any way romantically

00:18:16.420 interested in Harvey Weinstein?

00:18:17.900 She says no.

00:18:19.000 Did you act in any way sexually interested in Harvey Weinstein?

00:18:21.920 No.

00:18:22.220 Did you hear from Harvey Weinstein once he left your apartment and you went inside?

00:18:26.000 Yes.

00:18:26.920 At that point, was your roommate Liz at home?

00:18:29.860 She was not.

00:18:30.980 Was Peanuts there?

00:18:31.960 Peanuts is Liz's dog.

00:18:33.980 I believe so.

00:18:35.740 Describe the additional contact.

00:18:37.800 Well, I heard from him and his assistant a few times that day asking if I had decided

00:18:42.460 whether or not I was going to go to Paris.

00:18:44.340 And I said, thank you so much, but no, I am not going to come.

00:18:47.620 He said, well, just think about it again, you know.

00:18:50.400 And he kept calling and I kept saying, thank you so much, but no.

00:18:53.380 And question, those initial communications that you were describing, were those phone calls?

00:19:00.160 Answer, I'm not.

00:19:02.460 I believe they were phone calls.

00:19:04.320 Yes.

00:19:05.760 Question.

00:19:06.420 And that was to that phone number that you had in your planner and that you were using

00:19:10.120 at that time when you were in New York.

00:19:11.780 She answers, I believe so.

00:19:12.980 I'm not 100 percent sure that they were phone calls, but I it's more like they were phone

00:19:19.800 calls than emails.

00:19:22.140 Question.

00:19:22.680 Can you describe Harvey Weinstein's tone during those conversations of those phone calls?

00:19:26.740 She answers.

00:19:27.600 Well, he was persistent and persistent.

00:19:29.700 And what if anything happened sort of following those repeated phone calls?

00:19:34.120 Well, and later he showed up unannounced at the apartment building.

00:19:37.620 And I am not sure if he rang the intercom or whether he called me on the phone and said

00:19:42.220 he was outside.

00:19:43.080 But he had shown up there unexpectedly.

00:19:46.560 Question.

00:19:47.060 Did you try to get him to leave via phone initially?

00:19:50.380 I did.

00:19:51.420 I he wanted to come inside and I said it wasn't a good time.

00:19:55.940 And so he said, you know, just talk to me like five minutes.

00:19:58.960 I want to see you for five minutes or something like that question.

00:20:02.100 And so after you had said that it wasn't a good time, did he remain outside of your building?

00:20:08.320 Yes, he wouldn't leave.

00:20:09.680 And can you describe his tone at that point?

00:20:12.860 It was just very persistent and insistent.

00:20:17.000 And what did you do?

00:20:18.520 Well, I didn't want him to come into the apartment.

00:20:20.400 So I thought I will go out and see him outside, just like outside by the door.

00:20:25.520 So I left the doors open to go outside to open the front door.

00:20:29.040 And as soon as I opened it, he just pulled it apart like that and barged past me and walked

00:20:34.620 down the hallway and said, where is it?

00:20:36.800 Where is it?

00:20:37.520 And he was pointing and he saw, obviously, the door was open and he just walked into the

00:20:44.020 apartment.

00:20:45.840 Let me just come out of this transcript for a second.

00:20:47.140 So Harvey Weinstein reappeared at her apartment and she doesn't kind of maybe sort of remember

00:20:54.940 the phone call ish, the phone call details are always a bit hazy when you go through this

00:20:59.040 transcript.

00:20:59.900 But she knows that he she only went outside because she didn't want him to come inside.

00:21:05.400 But Harvey's she's given an air and if he's crazy, he's like, where is it?

00:21:09.640 Where is it?

00:21:10.000 I want to see your East Village apartment and just burst past her and barges in and somehow

00:21:17.180 finds exactly which apartment it was because the door was open.

00:21:22.420 And he just took a guess.

00:21:24.240 That is power, my friends.

00:21:26.720 Anyways, jumping back into this, the lawyer asks, and what did you do?

00:21:30.920 I mean, I was just standing there like I didn't I didn't know what to do.

00:21:34.160 So I just like, oh, God.

00:21:35.520 Oh, no.

00:21:36.680 Why is he walking into the apartment?

00:21:39.320 Describe what happened.

00:21:40.300 Did you go into the apartment?

00:21:41.560 Did you follow him into the apartment?

00:21:43.660 Yes.

00:21:44.940 And describe what happened once you were inside of the apartment.

00:21:47.420 Well, once we were inside of the apartment, we were just standing there and he was basically

00:21:51.900 standing there.

00:21:53.140 He asked a few things about the apartment and who I was living with.

00:21:56.380 And then he was persisting with trying to convince me to go with him on this trip to

00:22:02.260 Paris.

00:22:03.820 I mean, he must have really wanted her to go on the trip to Paris.

00:22:06.100 Question.

00:22:06.560 Do you remember anything about the details of what he was saying at that point?

00:22:10.800 Answer.

00:22:11.560 Well, at one point he said, OK, well, why don't you just take your roommate if that will make

00:22:15.620 you come?

00:22:16.260 She can come, too.

00:22:17.320 She can be your chaperone or whatever.

00:22:19.860 What was your responses to his request?

00:22:21.540 Well, I was still trying.

00:22:23.320 I felt I was just saying, thank you so much.

00:22:25.620 But no, thank you.

00:22:26.280 Basically, I'm not going to come.

00:22:28.760 Can you describe his demeanor in the apartment as he is making these repeated requests?

00:22:32.560 He was just very overwhelming and he wasn't he was just very, very persistent and he was

00:22:38.780 still friendly, but it was almost beggy and he was kind of very insistent.

00:22:43.320 And it would not just take just accept the no.

00:22:46.980 Did you continue to hold your ground and say that you were not going to go with him?

00:22:50.680 Yes.

00:22:51.920 Was he listening?

00:22:53.760 And then there's an objection here from Harvey's attorney.

00:22:56.420 So he rephrases the question.

00:22:58.480 Was he continuing to ask you to go?

00:23:00.820 Yes.

00:23:01.560 At some point, did he stop asking you to go?

00:23:04.580 Yes.

00:23:05.140 Can you describe that?

00:23:06.780 Well, at one point I had because I just didn't know how to shut it down, so to speak.

00:23:10.660 I just said something that I have, you know, I was trying to say things and I said, you

00:23:15.520 know, you have a terrible reputation with women, I have heard.

00:23:18.660 And it was more like half a joke or something.

00:23:20.360 I was trying to be friendly still, but he got offended by that and he stepped back and

00:23:23.900 he said, what do you mean?

00:23:24.820 What have you heard?

00:23:26.020 That sort of thing.

00:23:27.460 And I said, no, I'm just saying like, no, just in general, like whatever.

00:23:31.900 But that's when he backed off.

00:23:33.840 At that point, did you leave your apartment?

00:23:35.420 Yes.

00:23:36.900 And I'm going to show you that I have marked as people's exhibit 65 through 69.

00:23:41.080 Do you recognize the people's exhibit 65 through 69?

00:23:43.860 I do.

00:23:45.020 What do you recognize those to be?

00:23:46.580 So this is the front door of the apartment building where I lived during that time.

00:23:51.400 So I wanted to just describe to you that incident because it's important to understand.

00:23:55.200 So she starts with this hotel incident and then in Cannes and now we've moved and she's,

00:24:02.140 you know, gets a ride and I guess he's just decided to memorize her little East Village

00:24:06.780 apartment and he's barged in, luckily found the apartment because he could tell from this

00:24:11.800 door that that must be hers.

00:24:14.840 And he walked in there and she follows.

00:24:16.540 And then despite this beast and monster chasing her, she's able to get him to back off with

00:24:22.120 just this one sentence.

00:24:23.000 Oh, you have a bad reputation with women.

00:24:26.580 Her memory then gets a little bit fuzzy.

00:24:27.740 I got to tell you, she doesn't remember again exactly how they communicated.

00:24:32.500 But she acknowledges that she accepts an invitation for Weinstein to fly her out to California,

00:24:40.280 Los Angeles, for the premiere of Clerks 2, a movie, in July of 2006.

00:24:46.360 She frames that as like, you know, I felt bad I didn't go to Paris, but she's going to go

00:24:51.680 to L.A. because also the timing works out for her because her friend just had a baby.

00:24:57.220 But then something happens, okay?

00:25:00.680 Before Mimi flies out to L.A. on July 10th, 2006, Harvey invites her to his Soho apartment.

00:25:09.760 And that's what you heard her crying about.

00:25:11.840 He forcibly performs a sexual act on her.

00:25:15.320 Now, even if you knew nothing about this case, just this sentence alone that I'm about to

00:25:21.380 show you from 2020 when the trial was going on, AB News article that was covering the trial

00:25:27.180 would probably make you go, huh?

00:25:28.480 It reads, quote, one of the two women that Harvey Weinstein is on trial for sexually assaulting

00:25:35.200 took the witness stand on Monday to describe how the Hollywood producer violently and sexually

00:25:41.940 assaulted her and to explain why she returned to him within a month and endured a second unwanted

00:25:50.140 sexual encounter.

00:25:51.100 Wait, okay.

00:25:53.540 So she's taking the stand to explain why after a violent, sexual, forcible assault, she then

00:25:59.620 went back to him within a month to endure a second assault.

00:26:03.600 That doesn't sound right.

00:26:05.740 But yeah, Mimi's allegations were that on July 10th, 2006, Harvey Weinstein forcibly performed

00:26:11.540 a sex act on her.

00:26:12.700 Then she went to L.A. on his dime, by the way.

00:26:16.080 And when she returned on July 26th, 2006, so we're talking two weeks, it happened again.

00:26:27.180 Mimi alleges that when she returned from L.A. to New York City about two weeks later, Harvey

00:26:31.660 invited her to the Tribeca Grand Hotel for a drink, and she agreed.

00:26:36.160 She said, quote, he was very persistent and insistent.

00:26:41.940 She explained her going back by saying, quote, I was still trying to make sense of what had

00:26:49.260 happened, why it had happened, and I felt very trapped in not being able to do anything

00:26:54.020 about it.

00:26:55.300 She said she felt like she was trying to regain some sort of power until she walked in to meet

00:27:02.000 him on July 26th, 2006, wearing a battered pair of vintage shoes with little money and

00:27:08.440 no family in the U.S., by the way.

00:27:11.560 So she testified, quote, I just felt like some sort of hobo, just like a girl who's just

00:27:16.040 down on her luck.

00:27:17.960 You know what I mean?

00:27:18.840 Yeah.

00:27:19.100 Park aside the fact that we're talking about a grown adult woman, she was down on her luck

00:27:22.780 and she really was just kind of going there to regain power.

00:27:26.040 But she testified that when she arrived at the Tribeca Grand Hotel, she was directed to

00:27:30.820 Weinstein's room where I mean, I call me crazy.

00:27:35.560 I maybe wouldn't have gone to his hotel room again, but like this is a different, it's

00:27:40.940 different.

00:27:41.380 She's going again to regain power.

00:27:44.600 And this is where she claims that he took her hand and he pulled her toward a bed.

00:27:49.140 And she says at that moment, quote, I just went numb because she realized right then that

00:27:57.080 Weinstein had trapped her again.

00:28:00.200 She testified, quote, I just felt like an idiot.

00:28:04.300 In the courtroom, this is the moment where she trembles and she weeps and she puts her

00:28:10.700 hands in her head.

00:28:12.660 Because if you don't, if you're thinking about asking questions about that or wondering if

00:28:17.740 there's an aspect of common sense here, maybe don't go back to a hotel room, don't let him

00:28:21.540 into your apartment, anything like that.

00:28:23.080 The point is, is now she's crying on the stand and crying counts for a lot on the stand.

00:28:27.400 You're going to learn that a lot throughout this case.

00:28:28.860 Now, I want to take you through when Harvey's lawyer is able to question her because it gets

00:28:36.800 quite interesting.

00:28:38.760 And if you go back to that original encounter at the Cannes Film Festival, he asks her.

00:28:46.240 And we'll, this is the top of 1638 Skyler.

00:28:52.280 He asks her, remember, this is when he's supposed to be the massage incident at an initial one.

00:28:56.040 He, he's realizing I have some questions, even though she's crying.

00:28:59.440 And he, Damon Churnis is his name, is the lawyer.

00:29:02.220 And he says, that assistant brings you up to the room.

00:29:04.820 And she says, correct.

00:29:06.500 And then he says, do you remember what you did earlier that day on the 24th at the Cannes

00:29:10.560 Film Festival?

00:29:11.240 Do you remember where you went?

00:29:13.220 I don't.

00:29:14.680 When you get to the Hotel Majestic, you get brought to Mr. Weinstein's room, right?

00:29:19.100 Yes.

00:29:20.100 The two of you, according to your testimony, have a brief conversation about whatever.

00:29:23.960 Yes.

00:29:25.100 At some point, you say Mr. Weinstein asks you about massages.

00:29:28.860 Yes.

00:29:29.800 He asked if you'll give him a massage or at some point if he can give you a massage, right?

00:29:34.220 Correct.

00:29:35.440 At this point, you told the members of the jury that you were very upset to say the least,

00:29:40.360 right?

00:29:40.600 I was offended.

00:29:42.480 Yes.

00:29:43.380 You were offended because this was a business meeting that you thought you were going to

00:29:46.800 potentially talk about Project Runway.

00:29:49.380 No, not Project Runway at this point.

00:29:52.220 Something else?

00:29:53.860 I allegedly, I went there to meet him to ask if he had anything, any production work that

00:29:59.200 I could help on.

00:29:59.960 Yes.

00:30:01.480 During the course of that meeting, is it your testimony?

00:30:04.080 Mr. Weinstein propositioned you with a massage, right?

00:30:06.780 Repeat, repeat, propositioned you with a massage?

00:30:11.520 He did, yes.

00:30:13.340 And you were humiliated, is the word you used.

00:30:16.580 I was.

00:30:17.620 You left and you left the room.

00:30:20.080 You testified.

00:30:21.340 You started crying.

00:30:23.060 Once I left the hotel.

00:30:25.320 And when did Mr. Weinstein give you his phone number during the course of that?

00:30:28.800 I don't recall when he actually gave it to me.

00:30:32.740 Somebody's phone number is usually the last thing that you get, right?

00:30:36.500 Objection, says her lawyer.

00:30:38.600 Probably, she says.

00:30:39.760 The court says overruled.

00:30:41.660 Was it after Mr. Weinstein had made these propositions and you were walking out the door

00:30:46.520 that he gave you his phone number?

00:30:49.640 Objection, Mr. Haas says.

00:30:52.200 The court overruled that objection.

00:30:53.600 She answers, possibly, probably.

00:30:59.000 Then you said at some point later you received a call from Mr. Weinstein, but you don't really

00:31:03.320 remember it.

00:31:05.240 I don't really remember if it was from Mr. Weinstein himself or an assistant, but somebody

00:31:09.380 came through to arrange for me to go help out on Project Runway.

00:31:14.580 Mr. Weinstein gave you his number?

00:31:16.860 Yes, I may have followed up with his office.

00:31:19.140 So we are clear, you called Mr. Weinstein's office after this massage request?

00:31:25.100 Yes.

00:31:26.220 And when you called Mr. Weinstein's office, who did you talk to?

00:31:30.080 Actually, I'm not sure, but yes, yes.

00:31:33.060 Were you thinking in your head at this time this massage incident occurred, why am I going

00:31:37.100 to call this guy for a job?

00:31:39.780 No, I needed a job.

00:31:42.440 And isn't it true that Project Runway was already in production at that point?

00:31:46.600 Correct.

00:31:46.980 And being in the production industry, you are aware it was probably fully staffed by

00:31:51.220 the time that you would have gotten involved.

00:31:53.160 Correct.

00:31:54.200 And she answers, yes.

00:31:56.200 Well, it's interesting testimony there.

00:31:57.320 Yeah, she needed a job and kind of has to admit like, yeah, maybe she got his number on

00:32:04.660 the way out of that horrible massage incident in which she cried.

00:32:08.180 And then maybe she reached out to his office about that position, which wasn't really an

00:32:15.520 open position, but required someone with power to kind of make the position for a person who

00:32:21.040 isn't supposed to be working in the U.S. just kind of happen.

00:32:24.240 I don't know.

00:32:24.660 I don't know.

00:32:24.920 I'm not I'm not alleging anything.

00:32:26.240 But the point is, I'm just reading you the testimonies that are going on.

00:32:30.440 And then Damis Chernis is able to question her again.

00:32:34.140 Of course, he questions her throughout this entire thing.

00:32:36.300 But about that incident on July 26th, when she just can't explain how she got trapped

00:32:46.660 again by him at another hotel.

00:32:49.680 And here's here is from that transcript.

00:32:52.400 Chernis asks her on the 26th of July, you had sex with Harvey Weinstein, correct?

00:32:59.200 There was sex with Harvey Weinstein.

00:33:02.040 Yes, she replied.

00:33:03.700 Shortly after, Chernis asked her, he didn't force you to have sex, did he?

00:33:08.880 I didn't physically resist, she replied.

00:33:12.540 Do you remember testifying before the grand jury that the sex was not forced?

00:33:20.340 Correct, because I didn't resist, Halehi said.

00:33:24.900 He also then challenges her, according to this article, her recollection on the stand,

00:33:30.180 where she now says that he called her a B-I-T-C-H and that he called her a whore.

00:33:35.780 And that was something that she had not recounted in her initial interviews with prosecutors.

00:33:41.460 She found that to be very strange.

00:33:42.840 Like, when you're in front of that grand jury in early 2018, you never said any of this stuff.

00:33:48.180 And here's how she replied.

00:33:49.540 She said, quote, I think that is something that I remembered later, she said.

00:33:54.780 Okay, okay, let's just take her at her face value here.

00:33:58.140 Listen, I'm not here to not believe women.

00:34:01.620 Let's take everything she said into account because, again, Harvey gets 20 years, okay?

00:34:07.100 And I hate being a person with common sense, so I'm happy for you guys to comment.

00:34:14.280 Let me know what you think.

00:34:15.740 I would expect that after having survived two sexual assaults, after having survived with one powerful sentence,

00:34:24.780 you have a bad reputation with women, having survived him, having barged into her apartment,

00:34:29.500 plus the weird massage incident in the room that began it all.

00:34:35.500 I would surmise that Mimi Halehi, now done with that in the past, Project Runway situation over,

00:34:42.620 that she would have maybe just stayed away from Harvey Weinstein altogether.

00:34:46.180 Is that fair?

00:34:47.540 I'll look in the chat.

00:34:48.180 Is that fair?

00:34:48.660 Is it fair to go, okay, maybe just stay away from this guy?

00:34:52.340 He's bad news bears.

00:34:53.300 Like, if you're not going to go to the cops, you're too scared, fine, but just stay away from him.

00:34:58.940 And if you think that is fair, or if you think it's not fair, I invite you to tell me why it isn't.

00:35:05.320 I can tell you the answer.

00:35:06.640 She didn't stay away from him.

00:35:08.120 She didn't stay away from him after her sexual, various sexual assaults in 2006.

00:35:13.040 You're going to be rather surprised to learn that she instead would send Harvey Weinstein emails.

00:35:18.400 He conducts his emails always through his assistants, and she sent Harvey Weinstein this email two years after her double assault.

00:35:28.200 This email went out on Friday, June 27th, 2008.

00:35:34.720 She wrote,

00:35:36.880 Hi, Harvey.

00:35:37.840 How are you?

00:35:39.540 It's great to see you in Cannes.

00:35:41.840 I noticed an article in today's New York Post about the Addams family being turned into a Broadway musical.

00:35:47.740 Just to remind you what a genius I am, didn't I tell you that was a great idea like three years ago at the Mercer Bar?

00:35:55.340 Hmm?

00:35:56.820 Lots of love.

00:35:58.260 Miriam.

00:35:59.360 Oh, lots of love.

00:36:03.300 I was not expecting to read Lots of Love.

00:36:08.180 Now, I want to be honest.

00:36:10.000 I've never been raped.

00:36:11.760 I've never been sexually assaulted.

00:36:13.100 But I would imagine in a world where that happened to me, I probably wouldn't send an email and say lots of love to the person that had conducted those sexual assaults.

00:36:24.340 That's just me.

00:36:25.140 Again, I could be in a totally crazy space.

00:36:26.900 Happy to hear you guys come, you know, explain to me why that sometimes happens.

00:36:31.220 And so specific.

00:36:32.640 And she's kind of going back to the Mercer Bar.

00:36:35.360 She says they had that great time together.

00:36:37.260 That was just right before he scoped out her apartment, barged in.

00:36:41.480 And she doesn't seem to be concerned about that.

00:36:43.960 And to be clear, Harvey replied to her three days later.

00:36:46.680 Sounds like a busy guy.

00:36:47.740 Maybe he wasn't giving her the attention that she needed or wanted.

00:36:50.960 And he replied on the 30th.

00:36:52.740 And he said this to her, Miriam, you are a genius.

00:36:55.640 It's good to hear from you.

00:36:56.640 All my best, Harvey.

00:36:57.740 Oh, just one sentence back, which he just must have been so pompous and so arrogant that he didn't even allocate the proper amount of time to wanting to have this relationship or wanting her to like him.

00:37:09.240 Because if he had committed these insane assaults, you know, I don't know.

00:37:14.780 I just I would imagine that he would want to, you know, make sure that she was happy.

00:37:18.280 But that's a pretty short response.

00:37:19.860 Anyways, she then writes him again.

00:37:23.680 Yeah.

00:37:24.260 A year after that, she writes him on February 25th of 2009.

00:37:29.620 This time, she's a bit more explicit in what she's what she's looking for.

00:37:33.480 She writes, Dear Harvey, I haven't seen you in so long.

00:37:38.000 How are you?

00:37:39.020 Listen, I'm saving up to become a Kundalini yoga teacher.

00:37:41.900 And I just wanted to announce myself available for work.

00:37:45.140 If you happen to, by any chance, have anything shooting in London, I'll be a runner, whatever.

00:37:51.720 I'd really appreciate any leads.

00:37:54.960 A cat needs feeding.

00:37:56.640 Either way, I hope you are super well.

00:37:59.880 Peace and love.

00:38:01.200 Miriam.

00:38:03.640 Okay.

00:38:04.080 So I don't know if I'm just not aware of what can happen or why you might email a person who has multiple times assaulted you.

00:38:14.060 And again, try to put yourself into a circumstance where you are working for him.

00:38:19.080 But that is what Miriam did.

00:38:21.180 And now we are talking, she's three years older.

00:38:23.180 So she's about 32, 33 years old.

00:38:26.940 And I would say, obviously, probably had every opportunity at that moment to go to the police and to report what had happened to her.

00:38:34.840 But she doesn't do that.

00:38:35.880 She doesn't do that at all.

00:38:36.520 She waits another.

00:38:37.620 So this is 2009.

00:38:38.660 She comes out with her allegations in 2017.

00:38:40.100 She waits another eight years when she's next to Gloria Allred and Harvey Weinstein is going down and she decides to present this story as her having been sexual assaulted.

00:38:53.120 And she was successful.

00:38:54.000 Like I said, she broke down crying on the stand.

00:38:56.040 And that was enough in New York to give him 20 years.

00:39:03.180 Now, when we take a look at the transcript and we start hearing and looking at more information about that time that he barged into her apartment, you know, when Damon Chernis is able to put her on the stand and ask her questions about that setup of the apartment.

00:39:20.680 And you learn that there was not just one door in which she had to buzz him into and he burst into it, you know, burst through it.

00:39:29.220 There was also a second security door that you would have to be buzzed into.

00:39:34.100 And she is not really sure how he goes, doesn't really remember the details of how he got past that one.

00:39:39.580 But he did.

00:39:40.660 And then we learned that the layout of that apartment actually required him to go right and then left in order to get to her open door.

00:39:53.040 And I am telling you, when I'm reading this transcript, I'm thinking if a girl did not want you to come to her apartment, to be inside of her apartment, you've got two security doors.

00:40:03.260 You've got a call to get it.

00:40:04.200 I mean, I just maybe would have let it, the call go to go unanswered, maybe not opened the second door, not showed him.

00:40:13.980 Well, I'm not implying she did.

00:40:14.920 Obviously, her testimony is he just said, where is it?

00:40:16.920 Where is it?

00:40:17.760 And then, you know, found it, just was able to find it.

00:40:21.660 She's like had a scent about where her apartment might be.

00:40:23.940 But I felt like there were maybe some opportunities for her to get out of that situation when I was reading through the transcript.

00:40:29.200 And then I found it to be very weird.

00:40:30.440 And again, this is another one of her memory lapses when Damon Churnis, the lawyer, starts asking her about this trip to L.A. that she says she got invited to because of a movie premiere.

00:40:41.000 Then we learned that she was in L.A. for two weeks and that Harvey paid for that trip.

00:40:44.340 And then Damon kind of says, hey, how long do movie premieres usually last?

00:40:48.920 And she says, you know, I'm paraphrasing here, one night.

00:40:52.500 And so we were there for two weeks and Harvey paid for this trip.

00:40:55.380 Yeah, she doesn't remember how that happened after he barged into her apartment, but recalls maybe that she and then Damon shows her an email, another email that she sent to the Weinstein company where she says, hey, yeah.

00:41:08.900 Harvey said that he would help me get to Los Angeles and then Damon Churnis, Harvey's lawyer, is able to show in her calendar entry that on June 26th, actually, she had gone out to buy her friend who had a baby in L.A. a gift.

00:41:32.280 So before Harvey, before this movie premiere offer, which she alleges was the reason for her going to L.A., she had plans to go to L.A.

00:41:42.780 So that, I guess, was serendipitous, serendipitous.

00:41:46.240 Or as Damon kind of presents, he was just paying for her to go to L.A.

00:41:53.660 And this wasn't really about a movie premiere.

00:41:56.040 This was about Harvey Weinstein.

00:41:58.520 Again, this is reading the transcripts.

00:41:59.900 My takeaway is that they kind of maybe had just offered to pay for her to go to L.A. on a trip.

00:42:07.160 And he didn't really need her at the movie premiere at all.

00:42:11.900 But what do I know?

00:42:12.880 Again, I don't want to make any implications here because he was found guilty, guys.

00:42:18.300 And there's so much more that I'm going to tell you about Mimi, this woman who kind of enjoyed these father-like relationships, these mentor-like relationships.

00:42:27.820 And truly, guys, she just felt like a hobo.

00:42:30.240 And it's really sad that this 30-year-old woman just couldn't, I guess, didn't have enough life experience to know about these pitfalls of men in their hotel rooms and robes.

00:42:42.620 And even when the signs were there and he asked for a massage and, you know, those parts get really hazy.

00:42:48.660 And so the New York courts said that she was a victim.

00:42:53.620 And what's really compelling, by the way, is to when you hear all these people pretending to be outraged that the appellate court said, what happened here?

00:43:04.720 And one of the things that one of the judges says, and we'll get to that transcript tomorrow or in our next installment of this when they're reviewing this case, is they go, why were certain people even allowed to testify?

00:43:16.480 Why? Because it almost looks to this judge, the appellate judge, that they didn't have the evidence really to convict Harvey.

00:43:23.820 So they just kind of allowed this sort of banana court thing to happen where they let people testify about all sorts of things.

00:43:29.180 Like Bob Weinstein, his brother, Harvey once got into a fight with his brother.

00:43:35.140 OK, why is this being allowed in this courtroom?

00:43:37.680 What does that have to do with anything?

00:43:38.620 What does that have to do with anything happening?

00:43:41.900 So if you if you get into a fistfight with your brother or you punch your brother, it means that you're a rapist.

00:43:47.120 But what is it was all about just like character assassination, you know?

00:43:51.240 Oh, Harvey one time, you know, didn't pay me or something.

00:43:55.820 And just like assassinating his character.

00:43:57.460 It seems like a show trial.

00:43:59.340 Like I said, I'll show you what the appellate judge said about this and why they are sending this back down.

00:44:04.260 But I want you to imagine this.

00:44:05.160 I want you to imagine you or someone you love.

00:44:08.100 Maybe it's your woman watching your husband, your brother, your son gets 20 years in prison.

00:44:20.100 20 years in prison for this relationship that of Mimi Haley lost now goes by Mimi Haley.

00:44:29.460 And nobody really cares to look into this and to recognize that.

00:44:35.700 There's some strange things that I think went down here.

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00:46:42.740 I can't wait to see what you guys are thinking about.

00:46:45.460 Just what I presented you so far.

00:46:46.740 Tip of the iceberg, guys.

00:46:48.260 Tip of the iceberg.

00:46:50.120 Okay, we're just getting started here, so don't even get crazy.

00:46:55.720 And it's amazing to think, by the way, I know we had showed you before when we cut a trailer for this,

00:47:01.640 but all of these celebrities, he's God, he's God, he's God, and then instantly, right?

00:47:07.200 Instantly, and this is a matter of self-preservation,

00:47:09.780 those very same people, like Jennifer Lawrence, who said he was a God and thank you, I owe you so much,

00:47:17.240 turned on him and were a part of the dog pile.

00:47:20.780 Take a listen.

00:47:21.300 He is just that horrible ass boil that does not go away.

00:47:30.160 Harvey Weinstein isn't here tonight, but don't worry, he'll be back in 20 years

00:47:34.020 when he becomes the first person ever booed during the in-memoriam.

00:47:37.440 The Academy, as you're no doubt aware, took action last year to expel Harvey Weinstein from their ranks.

00:47:44.260 There were a lot of great nominees, but Harvey deserved it the most.

00:47:47.640 Incredible. With friends like these who all took, took, took, who need enemies, right?

00:47:54.120 And that's kind of the thing about the Me Too movement is how it moves.

00:47:57.500 When people are certain that people are going down, they are willing to say so much.

00:48:04.000 And then when someone starts going back and through the facts, I think people get a little bit nervous.

00:48:08.200 I think there's going to be a lot of celebs that are nervous.

00:48:10.380 They know I'm talking to Harvey. They know I know stuff.

00:48:12.440 They know I'm getting close. Freaking out. What do I know about these people?

00:48:17.720 Okay. And similarly, we saw this, by the way, to go into a current event with the Blake Lively thing.

00:48:22.400 Oh, it was so easy for the cast members to throw.

00:48:25.700 Oh, my God. Just throw Justin Baldoni under the bus.

00:48:28.700 And I don't mean to correlate Justin to Harvey, but it was amazing because it's Justin was just so kind.

00:48:35.240 It did nothing wrong. And they all were like self-preservation.

00:48:37.660 La, la, la. Brandon Sklenor. Read it. Read the complaint.

00:48:42.600 Well, guess what? I just wanted to very quickly let you guys know.

00:48:44.440 Brandon Sklenor has had a change of hearts because he is avoiding saying that he's Team Blake like the absolute plague now.

00:48:51.880 And so last night there were there were the Oscars last night.

00:48:55.680 I didn't watch them, but I did catch that at the red carpet of the Vanity Fair Oscars party.

00:49:02.660 Someone came up to him and just flat out asked him if he was Team Blake, you know, and here's what he had to say.

00:49:06.740 Take a listen.

00:49:07.240 And finally, I know you're very supportive over your female co-stars as well.

00:49:11.300 Blake Lively, how are you hoping to support her during this time?

00:49:14.600 I mean, I just I just it's it's a tough situation.

00:49:19.500 And I I just hope everyone remembers what the movie is about and why we made it in the first place.

00:49:25.520 And it's about love and it's about supporting women in general and and helping people through tough times.

00:49:34.320 And that movie has helped so many people. And I just want people to remember like what it's about and why we made it.

00:49:39.620 And to kind of keep it on that, that kind of like core ethos, you know what I mean?

00:49:45.200 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Say a bunch of words and also say absolutely nothing.

00:49:49.960 I get it. Brandon, so much easier. Just say sorry. So much easier.

00:49:54.140 But you will know, by the way, that that was the Hollywood Reporter.

00:49:56.900 OK, the Hollywood Reporter is the one that is like unbelievably Team Blake and Team Ryan.

00:50:01.140 And Ari Emanuel's got power with the Hollywood Reporter. So they set him up for that, trying to get him to say something great about Blake Lively.

00:50:07.200 And that failed. And he just kind of backed out and just mumble, jumbo jumbo mumbled his way out of that one.

00:50:14.700 That's kind of amazing. Also, a quick update.

00:50:17.360 The there is a legal filing today in the Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively Me Too case.

00:50:22.440 The first ever to be a Me Too case that I would say was orchestrated by a man, Ryan Reynolds.

00:50:27.140 That is my take on that situation. But the court is going to post an audio only access for the press and the public to have access to an upcoming hearing regarding their protective order.

00:50:40.320 I am so there. I will be covering it. Do not worry about it. I will be there.

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00:51:44.440 OK, let me see what you guys are saying very quickly.

00:51:49.080 All righty. Who do we have?

00:51:52.600 Jandy writes, I actually caught it live. You're amazing.

00:51:55.080 Always keeping you and your family in my thoughts and prayers.

00:51:57.540 Sneaking from work really quick just to donate and say that.

00:52:00.420 Jandy, thank you so much. That is so kind of you.

00:52:03.900 Myla says, I have worked in the industry for 15 years and have seen many women throw themselves onto the casting couch for that leading role.

00:52:11.340 They are not innocent.

00:52:12.720 Oh, shocking. Do you think that's what happened with Mimi?

00:52:15.820 No, what? Maybe you need to go back and watch her cry some more.

00:52:20.140 Mia writes, love everything you expose.

00:52:21.880 Kamala's not black. Brigitte is a man.

00:52:23.600 Blake and Ryan are fake and everything is gay.

00:52:26.060 Thank you.

00:52:26.980 Alice writes, Candice is fab.

00:52:28.800 Zade writes, congrats on four million subs.

00:52:31.560 Candice well deserves.

00:52:32.580 God bless you and always keep your faith.

00:52:35.320 This person anonymously writes, as a woman who has been abducted and raped, you would never, and I mean never, reach out to that person, let alone reach out like this year after year, time and time again.

00:52:45.980 And you know what? I'm so happy you said that because I didn't want to then end up with a bunch of rape victims being like, no, that's just like that's protocol.

00:52:51.960 That's what you do. You send emails.

00:52:53.080 You try to see them.

00:52:53.620 You try to be alone with them again in hotel rooms.

00:52:56.420 I mean, that was I'm just from the school of hard knocks.

00:52:58.760 I use a little bit of common sense.

00:53:00.040 But I had that instinct that maybe people who have lived through rape, which is, by the way, a huge reason that I do this series and what I hate about the Me Too movement is it completely cheapens the word rape.

00:53:12.100 So people that survive an abduction and a real rape and real sexual assaults have to contend with a movement of women who perhaps are engaging in something consciously.

00:53:24.100 Perhaps. I'm not here to paint a picture about Mimi.

00:53:27.460 She won. Don't want to get in trouble, but I'm just reading you the facts of his case and it's going to get even crazier, you guys.

00:53:34.180 By the way, before we jump off, I wanted to let you know that we released an episode of Shot in the Dark for free because right now there's all of this talk about measles, measles, measles.

00:53:44.440 And I was getting flooded with emails from parents saying, Candice, where is this episode?

00:53:47.500 Because they're basically using another fear mongering campaign to force parents into agreeing, acquiescing to their children, getting a combination shot, you know, measles, mumps and rubella.

00:53:56.940 And so we thought it was too important to keep it behind the paywall.

00:53:59.920 We released episode 14 of A Shot in the Dark early and for free available at CandiceOwens.com.

00:54:05.340 So if you're a parent and you're listening to all of this measles rhetoric, that will help you get a base understanding of even the history of measles and mumps and rubella in this country.

00:54:14.520 And hopefully it will cause you to not be as concerned about this rhetoric, which will keep happening as more people wake up to what big pharma is.

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00:54:33.580 And in any way that you can, we deeply appreciate it so that we can keep doing what we love to do.

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Harvey Speaks： The Project Runway Production ｜ Ep 1

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