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Oprah's Super Soul

Reese Witherspoon: It's About Time

Oprah's Super Soul

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.633.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2018

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In light of the Time's Up and #MeToo movements, Reese Witherspoon, the producer, activist and Oscar- and Emmy-winning actress, discusses her own story of being sexually assaulted by a director when she was just 16 years old. She also shares her reaction to first hearing about the Harvey Weinstein scandal. During the conversation, Oprah talks about the sexual harassment she endured during her early years in TV, saying, "It was absolutely, implicitly understood that if I said a word about it, I would have been out of television."

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0:00.0

I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of

0:07.5

the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present.

0:16.1

Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right

0:23.1

now.

0:24.7

What was your reaction when you first started to see this recent wave of women confronting

0:29.9

their harassers and abusers?

0:34.1

I think initially it was really shocking. I mean, when I heard the first Harvey story,

0:44.9

I'm trying to think of where it is when I heard it. I think it was in LA and it was with

0:54.7

you, I think.

0:56.9

Was it that day? I remember seeing, no, it wasn't that, it wasn't that same day. It was like

1:02.2

the day after I saw you and I remember seeing you on set and you said that you and several

1:08.5

other people that you knew actresses were having trouble sleeping. And remember, remember

1:16.4

and I came up to you and I said, gee, that sounds, that sounds like you're having symptoms

1:23.1

of PTSD. And you were saying it was so hard listening to these stories and accounts of

1:31.3

what was going on. And I remember talking to you about it and you started to tear up

1:37.0

your eye-started water. And I thought, oh gee, I've seen this before. This is some kind

1:42.7

of triggered reaction response.

1:46.3

Yeah.

1:47.3

Remember that moment?

1:48.3

Yeah.

1:49.3

Remember you saying that to me, you know, it was the first time someone was sort of identified

1:53.4

for me that all of those things I thought I had dealt with a long time ago, I hadn't

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