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Oprah Winfrey opened up for the first time publicly about the past two weeks' worth of sexual harassment and assault claims against Harvey Weinstein during her Wednesday appearance on 'CBS This Morning.'

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00:00And if we make this just about Harvey Weinstein, then we will have lost this moment.

00:06Oprah Winfrey opened up for the first time publicly about the past two weeks' worth of

00:10sexual harassment and assault claims against Harvey Weinstein during her Wednesday appearance

00:14on CBS This Morning. Winfrey starred in the Weinstein Company film lead Daniels, the butler.

00:19When asked about the movie mogul, Winfrey said,

00:30Winfrey believes the Weinstein scandal has triggered the suffering women have endured

00:37and kept hidden for an extensive amount of time.

00:39What I do believe is actually happening is that, first of all, it's triggering a lot of unreleased pain,

00:44repressed anger, guilt and suffering that a lot of women have had, Winfrey explained.

00:49If we make this just about Harvey Weinstein, then we will have lost this moment, Winfrey said.

00:53She added,

01:00but who felt that in order to keep my job, to keep my position, in order to keep moving forward,

01:04I've got to smile, I've got to look the other way, I've got to pretend he didn't say that,

01:08he didn't touch me.

01:09I think those days are about to be over.

01:13Having publicly addressed her story of sexual abuse before, Winfrey believes the more women speak out,

01:18the less fear they'll have over breaking their silence.

01:20A lot of women have been silenced, and I know, being a victim of child sexual abuse,

01:25that when you feel like you cannot be heard and then other people start speaking out,

01:28it makes you feel like, oh, now I can speak out too.

01:32Winfrey originally addressed the Weinstein scandal in a statement posted on her Facebook page,

01:36which read,

01:36Filmmaker James Shamus captured so much of what I've been feeling when he said,

01:41This is the story of one predator and his many victims,

01:44but it is also a story about an overwhelming systemic enabling,

01:47and until that story is fully told, we will fall far short of stopping future depredations on a similar scale.

01:53Thanks to the brave voices we've heard this week, many more will now be emboldened to come forward

01:58every time this happens. I believe a shift is coming.

02:02To watch the full clip of Oprah Winfrey talking about Harvey Weinstein on CBS This Morning,

02:06head to THR.com.

02:08For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.

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