'For the sake of truth': Weinstein victim Miriam Haley's decision to testify again

Miriam Haley says she risked her own privacy for the sake of other female victims of sexual abuse.

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When Miriam Haley heard the news last year that a New York court had thrown out a rape conviction against Harvey Weinstein, the man she helped put behind bars four years before, she was shocked.

In 2020, Ms Haley told a Manhattan courtroom every detail of the time Weinstein sexually assaulted her in his New York apartment in 2006.

This time, she was planning to turn down prosecutors, not wanting to put herself through it all again. But just weeks before the retrial, she saw a link to a new podcast series aimed at "exonerating" Weinstein.

"I just thought, I have to stand up for myself. I have to stand up for the truth," Ms Haley told the BBC.