Asia Argento feels ‘doubly crucified’ after Weinstein rape accusation

아시아 아르젠토, “하비 웨인스타인은 최악의 성 약탈자”
An Italian actress and director says she's leaving Italy because the country's media has attacked her for speaking out about sexual harassment in the entertainment industry.
Asia Argento was one of the first women to speak up out about alleged rape by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.
Ro Aram has more.
Argento broke her silence after 20 years, revealing details about her encounter with one of the most powerful producers in Hollywood when she was 21.
This story was published in the New Yorker a few weeks ago and inspired other women to come forward and tell harrowing accounts of sexual harassment, assault and rape.
Weinstein has been insisting, through his spokesperson, that relations with all of them were consensual.
On Tuesday in an interview with Italian state television RAI, Argento described Weinstein as the "biggest serial predator in history".
She has been overwhelmingly praised in the press and social media for her bravery, but in her home country, the reception has been quite different.

(Italian)
"…. these women also decided to come out with their names, with their faces, with their credibility as artists, with the possibility of what happened, and what happened only to be me in Italy, to be doubly crucified for a sexual violence."

The Italian actress has been hounded on Twitter with accusations that she sought out trouble.
Italian newspaper "Libero" also ran a scathing opinion piece on her titled "First they put out, and then they whine."

(Italian)
"I was already a victim but I felt even more disgusting. It is terrible that I should feel disgusting for what I was forced to endure. There is something in the mind of women, and not just in the minds of Italian women, but in all women, that we feel guilty for being beautiful, for wearing a dress that is perhaps low-cut, or a skirt that is too short, that somehow, we are the ones that bring out the animal in these men, this is what I cannot stand anymore."

The 42-year-old has relocated to Berlin to escape the media, though she admitted she may eventually return to her home country "for vacation" when tensions die down.
She also tweeted that she plans on suing Libero and other outlets for defamation.
Ro Aram, Arirang News.


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