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As for Julia Ormond, she spoke to Variety over the phone and told the outlet that she felt it was important to talk about her alleged experience with Weinstein for the first time. “I am coming forward with my story now publicly because I feel as if we still need systemic change, and I feel that we need accountability from enablers, in order to get there,” the actress said. “I feel that this is what happened with me.”
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After saying that she’s aware that Weinstein will be in prison for a very long time, Ormond clarified that she thinks studios and agents alike have made sure that Weinstein could hurt women for decades because he was simply too powerful to go after for so long. “I personally don’t believe that Harvey could have done this without enablers,” she said. “And for me, that is the layer that you have to get down to, in terms of the root cause. If you think about it, if there had been best practices and Harvey Weinstein had been called out at the start after his first sexual harassment or his first sexual assault, he could have learned different behaviors, and potentially all of the people that followed wouldn’t have been harmed. But he wasn’t. And there’s a reason for that.”
