According to Piers Morgan, the Hollywood film producer is less a man accused of multiple rapes and more the ‘apocalyptic symptom of the whole thing: the casting couch finally brought to judgment’. Yeah, right
According to Piers Morgan – and Wide Awoke does not relish opening with those words – Harvey Weinstein believes he will eventually be forgiven by Hollywood. The disgraced film producer – who has been accused of sexual assault and rape by more than 80 women, with criminal cases against him opened in New York, London and Los Angeles – appears to think that his time is not up. And perhaps time is the great healer if you happen to be a powerful white man who can complete a $58,000 (£42,000), 45-day sex rehab programme early and still muster the energy to deny all accusations of non-consensual sex. Less so when it comes to the women who have broken their silence … but this isn’t about them.
In an interview with GQ, Morgan claims he spoke to Weinstein “in the clinic in Arizona, for about an hour”. Weinstein denies that they discussed business or Hollywood and released a statement saying “my priority is my family”. According to Morgan, Weinstein is “fighting”, which one presumes is a euphemism for coming and going freely from a facility where his day reportedly begins with “waking up early, checking in with his east coast lawyers, then visiting a juice shop, where he orders coffee and a green detox mix with kale and cucumber”.
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