Returning to stand, Weinstein accuser avers: ‘He is my rapist’

NEW YORK — A day after breaking down in tears under cross-examination, a key accuser at Harvey Weinstein’s trial returned to court on Tuesday and told jurors: “I want the jury to know that he is my rapist.”

The woman was back on the witness stand for a third and final day as Weinstein’s lawyers finished an exhaustive review of friendly, sometimes flirtatious emails she sent the film producer after she says he raped her twice in 2013.

They also played a recording she made of herself telling a psychic in April 2014 that Weinstein “had tried to cross boundaries in my life but I don’t allow him to.”

Weinstein’s lawyers contend that evidence points to a consensual relationship and shows that the 34-yearold former actress was a manipulator who gritted her way through sexual encounters with Weinstein because she enjoyed the perks of knowing him.

“I know the history of my relationship with him,” she pushed back. “I know it was complicated and difficult. But that doesn’t change the fact that he raped me.”

She finished up direct testimony back on Friday and prosecutors decided not to ask her any additional questions once Weinstein lawyer Donna Rotunno was finished Tuesday afternoon.

The woman’s return to the witness stand followed an emotional episode Monday, when she sobbed while reading an email passage about being abused earlier in her life. It was part of an email she sent a boyfriend in May 2014 explaining her relationship with Weinstein. The judge halted proceedings when she was unable to continue.