Harvey Weinstein’s estranged wife Georgina Chapman has broken her months-long silence about his sexual assault scandal saying she was ‘terribly naive’ about the disgraced film producer.
The 42-year-old, who is currently filing for divorce from Weinstein, told Vogue that she has moments of rage about her estranged husband’s behavior and now cries for the couple’s two children.
‘There was a part of me that was terribly naive – clearly, so naive,’ Chapman said. ‘I have moments of rage, I have moments of confusion, I have moments of disbelief!’
Chapman said she worries mostly about their two children – India, 7, and Dashiell, 5 – and the affect the scandal will have on them.
Harvey Weinstein’s estranged wife Georgina Chapman has broken her months-long silence about his sexual assault scandal in an interview with Vogue. They are pictured together at the Oscars in 2017
‘I have moments when I just cry for my children. What are their lives going to be? What are people going to say to them?’ she said in tears.
‘It’s like, they love their dad. They love him. I just can’t bear it for them!’
Asked if she was ever suspicious about Weinstein’s behavior, Chapman said: ‘Absolutely not. Never.’
‘That’s what makes this so incredibly painful: I had what I thought was a very happy marriage. I loved my life.’
Chapman, who co-founded the fashion label Marchesa, said she hadn’t offered up any of her dresses to celebrities for the past awards season.
‘We didn’t feel it was appropriate given the situation. All the women who have been hurt deserve dignity and respect, so I want to give it the time it deserves. It’s a time for mourning, really,’ she said.
Chapman, above with her daughter India in Manhattan last week, said she fears for her two daughters in the wake of their father’s sexual assault scandal
Chapman added that she had shut herself off from the world in the five months after the scandal first broke and hadn’t been out in public since.
‘I was so humiliated and so broken… that… I, I, I… didn’t think it was respectful to go out,’ she said.
‘I thought, Who am I to be parading around with all of this going on? It’s still so very, very raw. I was walking up the stairs the other day and I stopped; it was like all the air had been punched out of my lungs.’
The couple’s six-story home in New York’s West Village, which has recently been sold, has now been stripped of anything Weinstein-related, Vogue reporter Jonathan Van Meter noted.