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Outlook: 'Don't anger the monster', part 2

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Rowena Chiu

07/06/2023 GMT

'Don't anger the monster', part 2

BBC World Service - Outlook, 'Don't anger the monster', part 2

Rowena Chiu was kept silent for 20 years by former film boss Harvey Weinstein

Rowena Chiu was kept silent for 20 years by former film boss Harvey Weinstein.

Rowena Chiu thought that speaking up about her alleged sexual assault by Harvey Weinstein would end up with him in court. But instead she was pressured into signing an NDA so severe that she could tell no one, at times even fearing for her safety. Keeping this secret sent Rowena to a very dark place. But, as she tells Jo Fidgen, decades later the #MeToo movement set her free.

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In the 1960s, a bunch of musically-gifted pre-teen siblings from Saigon put together a rock ‘n’ roll group. For a while the CBC Band was the biggest music act in South Vietnam, even headlining the country’s first international rock festival. Bich Loan and Tung Linh explain to Outlook's Harry Graham that they had an unlikely fan base – battle-weary US soldiers fighting in the Vietnam War. This interview was first broadcast in 2019.

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(Photo: Rowena Chiu. Credit: Kathy LaBarre)

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