The Verdict: A Conversation with Rose McGowan

The Catch and Kill Podcast with Ronan Farrow

Pineapple Street Studios

News, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 10.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

On Monday, Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of sex crimes and taken into police custody. He faces up to 29 years in jail. Just hours after the jury announced its verdict, Ronan Farrow sat down with the actress Rose McGowan, the first woman to go on camera as Farrow reported on Weinstein, to reflect on the verdict and her long, strange journey to it—through Hollywood sexism, media executives willing to shut down her story, and hired spies willing to pose as friends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, we're going to be talking a lot about sexual violence in this series.
0:06.0	There's also some language.
0:07.9	If either of those things are upsetting for you, please take care while you're listening.
0:12.9	Hi, Rose.
0:14.9	Hi, Ronan.
0:16.5	Thank you for doing this today.
0:18.4	I feel like you're the person more than anyone else that I wanted to hear from today just
0:24.8	because of how long you've been in this pushing for some kind of accountability.
0:30.0	It has been an odyssey for both of us.
0:33.2	And here we are sitting here today.
0:36.6	What a day.
0:41.2	This is the Catch and Kill podcast.
0:43.1	I'm Ronan Farrow.
0:45.0	On Monday, Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of sex crimes and taken into police custody
0:49.8	in New York, while he waits a sentence that could total 29 years.
0:54.4	A jury convicted him of raping the third degree against Jessica Mann, a former aspiring actress,
1:00.6	and of a criminal sex act in the first degree against Miriam Hale, a former project runway
1:06.1	production assistant who claimed he forced oral sex on her.
1:10.5	We thought this podcast ended with episode 9, but so many of you asked for our take on
1:15.6	the verdict that here we are again, with a special bonus episode.
1:20.4	No frills this time, just a straight interview with one very important voice.
1:26.2	For many of the more than 90 women who have publicly accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment
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