On Wednesday, 12 New York gamblers found Mogul Harvey Venstein guilty in 2006 for sexual harassment with Mirium Haley in 2006, after being guilty of their previous sexual offenses in the state last year.

When Mirium Haley heard the news last year that a New York court threw the rape sentence against Harvey Venstein, the man she helped put behind bars four years ago, she was surprised.

In 2020, Ms. Haley in 2006 at her New York apartment told a manhattan courtroom at all the time of her sexual harassment time.

This time, she was planning to reject the prosecutors, not to keep herself through it. But a few weeks before the retrick, she saw a link to a new podcast series, which was aimed at “Aconsing” “Veenstein”.

“I thought, I have to stand for myself. I have to stand for the truth,” Ms. Haley told the BBC.

She was one of the three women, who was to testify against Veenstein during her six -week retric, she accused her power of using her power as a miramax. Hollywood tycoon to sexually abuse young women.

The jury found Veenstein guilty only for sexual harassment of Ms. Haley. They found that she is not guilty belonging to another woman and is still consulting the allegations of a third woman.

The decision “Hope to me – hope that there is a new awareness about sexual violence and that the myth of the right hunting is disappearing”, Ms. Haley said outside the Manhattan Courthouse on Wednesday.

A court of appeal overturned Winstein’s previous sentence for sex crimes in New York last April. The judges found that the original test of Vensteten was not appropriate as it included the testimony to the women who made beyond the allegations. Official allegations against him.

In September, the 73 -year -old was charged with sexual harassment charges for a new test.

He requested not to be guilty and again denied the allegations. His lawyers argued in retrick that his accused were “friends with profit”, who had consensus with him in exchange for work opportunities.

Insulting those illustrations, Ms. Haley said that the constant refusal of Venstein’s allegations pushed her to “show” in court.

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For this test, Ms. Haley spent four days at the stand – she did more than three for the first time.

This test, she could directly see her attacker, which during the first test, when she was blocked by the judge’s booth, was sitting in a wheelchair next to the defense table.

Going inside, she was worried, as she was in the previous test, how she would feel.

“Will I feel frightened? Will I probably feel sorry for him too?” He said. “And then when I saw him, it was nothing.”

Along with watching Venstein, Ms. Haley told the court about her first meeting in France in 2006. She said that she went to her hotel thinking that she would discuss the opportunities of work, but Venstein asked her to give a massage. He refused and left in tears.

He remained in touch, and Venstein later helped Ms. Haley to work as a production assistant for the television show project runway.

Then, one night he accepted an invitation in his New York apartment, he said, because he asked him to participate in a film premiere in Los Angeles.

On 10 July 2006 that evening, the film Mogul “lens” and kissed him from across a couch. He pushed her into a bedroom, where she forcibly had oral sex on her, Ms. Haley testified.

“I can’t get away from his grip,” he told the court. “I realized, I am raping, this is the same.”

The second time a room filled with strangers was “exhausted” remembering those intimate details, Ms. Haley later told the BBC.

“It’s just so aggressive,” he said.

Following direct inquiries, Ms. Haley faced a cross-examination from Venstein Attorney Jennifer Bongen, known for her combative style and has defended other major Hollywood figures accused of sexual harassment including Bill Cosby and R. Kelly.

When Ms. Bongen grills her about who took her clothes on the evening of July, Ms. Haley responded through tears.

“He took off my clothes … I didn’t take off my clothes,” he said. “He was the one who raped me, not in another way.”

“This is to decide for the jury,” Ms. Bongen replied.

The comment was derogatory, Ms. Haley said, who said that she could “feel my eyes, and everything, just because it was only so deeply aggressive in that moment”.

“Despite the decision, it still happened, from my point of view,” he said. “I am still the one who has to live with it.”

Ms. Haley was chased at the stand by actress Jessica Mann, who was involved in the first New York test of Veenstein, and former model Kaza Socola, who first testified, accusing Venstein of sexual harassment at the age of 19.

The jury found Veenstein guilty of attacking Ms. Socola, and is still considering whether she raped Ms. Mann.

Wenstein should still pronounce a separate 16 -year sentence for sexual offenses in California, which means that he was already expecting the rest of his life in jail, even though reasons for retrick’s result.

Overall, they have been accused of sexual misconduct, attack and rape by more than 100 women.

Like many victims of sexual assault, Ms. Haley did not publicly come forward about the abuse for years.

She said that she adopted a strategy from her difficult childhood – including misuse – where she suppressed painful memories and went with life as usual.

However, the attack had emotional consequences.

“I lost confidence in many things,” said Ms. Haley. “I could see on the surface that all these people were shoving on it. It was extremely derogatory and shameful.”

Ms. Haley eventually decided to come forward by other women after accusing Venstein of attack, helping to galvanize the #MeToo movement.

He was sent to death threats – but also dozens of messages from those women who said that they had inspired him to speak about his misuse.

“This is the wave effect,” he said.

Finally, the verdict was proof of “permanent and real change” around sexual harassment awareness, Ms. Haley said, the punishment called “release”.

Now a freelance manufacturer who spends time in Mexico, Ms. Haley believes that the end of the retrick would shut down a painful chapter, which he thought was already sealed with Venstein’s first punishment.

“Even showing me to show me like a small win,” he said. “I was definitely not really doing this for myself. I was doing it for truth, and for other women.”