As Rowena Chiu watched her former boss, Harvey Weinstein, being led out of a New York courtroom shackled in handcuffs, she was hit by a wave of emotion. She was conflicted, torn, confused. And it caught her by surprise.

"So I kind of thought that if there'd be any kind of conviction that I would feel some sense of elation and jubilation. I think many people did feel that," says Chiu, who has accused the former movie mogul of trying to rape her in 1998 when she was his assistant.