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(NewsNation) — Former exemplary Kaja Sokola took the basal this week successful the retrial of Harvey Weinstein, testifying for the archetypal time that helium assaulted her erstwhile she was 16 and 19.
Sokola shared allegations against the onetime Hollywood hitmaker with a Manhattan assemblage connected Thursday. She's the second of 3 accusers to attest — and the lone 1 who wasn't portion of his first proceedings successful 2020.
In 2022, Sokola spoke with NewsNation successful her archetypal and lone TV interrogation astir the alleged assaults.
“He said galore times that this is betwixt us,” Sokola said. “'Remember, I volition bash a batch of things for you, but this is betwixt us. I’m a precise almighty man.' And if you ever volition beryllium a, you know, a almighty actress, you wanted to enactment similar this.”
Weinstein was 50 astatine the clip of the archetypal alleged battle successful 2002 — and the "king of Hollywood," arsenic an acquaintance referred to him. Sokola, his youngest known accuser, had precocious moved from Poland and met Weinstein astatine a New York City club.
She said Weinstein invited her to luncheon but insisted connected stopping astatine his flat first.
"I didn’t cognize what to do, but you know. My intuition was telling maine that there’s thing wrong, but what tin spell truthful wrong? I mean, this feline is the property of my father. He’s wholly unattractive and completely, like, I don’t cognize ... And I was 16.”
Sokola said that erstwhile successful his apartment, Weinstein made her "do things that I would never, ever do."
“It’s similar ... a crab being thrown into a boiling water, you know, abruptly from an situation erstwhile you consciousness similar there’s thing wrong,” Sokola told NewsNation. “They’re taking maine retired of my place, of my harmless place. And past the adjacent second, you’re conscionable successful boiling water. You're dying. I felt similar portion of maine died that day.”
Weinstein faces a criminal enactment enactment charge related to a antithetic accusation from Sokola — forced oral enactment successful 2006.
Sokola sued Weinstein successful 2017 amid an influx of nationalist accusations, receiving $3.5 cardinal successful compensation, according to prosecutors.
Weinstein has pleaded not blameworthy and denies sexually assaulting anyone.
NewsNation's Rich McHugh and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
