At times sobbing, former production assistant Mimi Haleyi told jurors Monday at Harvey Weinstein's rape trial how she tried to fight off the disgraced movie mogul and told him "no, no, no" while he sexually assaulted her.
"I did reject him, but he insisted," said Haleyi, whose allegations against Weinstein led to his charges and trial. "Every time I tried to get off the bed he would push me back and hold me down."
"I couldn't get away from him at all, let alone get away," Haleyi said. "I checked out and decided to endure it. That was the safest thing I could do."
The then-revered Hollywood honcho "got offended", she said. "He stepped back and said, 'What have you heard?'"
Asked by prosecutor Meghan Hast if she had any romantic or sexual interest in Weinstein, Haleyi firmly answered: "Not at all, no."