S8E12 How Rowena Chiu Breaks Weinstein (Uploaded for Spotify)

Dear Katie: Survivor Stories · Nov 13, 2025 · 1h 5m

"I feel that the glass is both half full and half empty."

Rowena Chiu is a former assistant to Harvey Weinstein. In 1998, she was sexually assaulted by him at the Venice Film Festival and was coerced into signing a non-disclosure agreement (NDA), which silenced her for over twenty years. In 2017, a New York Times journalist came to her home and doorstepped her husband of over a decade, revealing information about the assault and NDA. Rowena was featured in the subsequent NYT investigation, but she insisted on remaining anonymous. In 2019, she finally broke her story on the NBC Today Show…