When the damn broke and allegations against Harvey Weinstein came pouring our like freaking LAVA (sorry, Hawaii.) many sort of figured the same thing: His wife Georgina HAD to know.
After all, she’s drop-dead gorg and much, much younger than he is. He bankrolled her fashion line. Maybe this marriage was just one of his many “agreements.” (No judgment to relationships with age gaps. My man is 13 years older than I am. But… this seems different to me. You know what I’m saying.)
After sh*t hit the fan, she went radio silent, and I think most sort of figured that was the case.
Well, she’s FINALLY speaking out… and claiming not to have known anything.
According to Daily Mail:
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 has filed 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.
Side note: She’s 42? Holy SMOKES is she beautiful! Totally irrelevant, I know.
‘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!’
I really do have a hard time believing she knew NOTHING…
And yet again, many people choose to be blind to what’s going on around them, knowing they won’t like what they see.
It gets pretty sad when she starts talking about her kids:
The British fashion designer said she worries mostly about their two children – India, 7, and Dashiell, 5 – and the effect the scandal will have on them.
‘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!’
She was also asked if she had any suspicions:
Asked if she was ever suspicious about Weinstein’s behavior, Chapman said: ‘Absolutely not. Never’. She added that he frequently traveled for work and she had never obsessed about where he was.
‘That’s what makes this so incredibly painful: I had what I thought was a very happy marriage. I loved my life.’
Other than the disgusting husband she had it pretty freaking good… so yeah. I get it.
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.
‘A lot of people reached out and said, ‘Let me wear something’,’ she added about her loyal followers. Scarlett Johansson wore a Marchesa gown to this year’s Met gala.
It definitely caused a stir:
Scarlet Johansson and Colin Jost making their couples #MetGala debut. Scarlet is wearing Marchesa (co-founded by Harvey Weinstein’s wife, which has made few if any red carpet appearances since the allegations). pic.twitter.com/WEnZSvbSyZ
— USA TODAY Life (@usatodaylife) May 8, 2018
Conflicting. Maybe Georgina suffered her own abuse by that monster, and his reckoning allowed her an escape. Scarlet looks lovely. She just played Ivanka on SNL. So much to unpack 🤔 https://t.co/Oyl5RlCh7m
— LB (@lindsay40858819) May 9, 2018
Can someone tell Scarlet Johansson wearing Marchesa at the #MetGala… we want our pin back.https://t.co/wDPMmVPZSJ
— L.L Not Cool J (@kalejuicifer) May 8, 2018
Yikes…
Anyway. Georgina’s a hermit now. A very rich hermit.
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.
Chapman and Weinstein reached a divorce agreement back in January. The prenuptial agreement she signed will reportedly pay her out between $15 and $20 million after 10 years of marriage. She will also get custody of their daughter and son.
You can read the rest of her interview here. Mostly she talks about how she’s great friends with Huma Abedin now, and it’s ultra weird.
So what do you think? Is she being honest? Did she know?