By JENNIFER PELTZ<\/p>\n
YORK (AP) \u2014 The accuser at\u00a0Harvey Weinstein<\/a>\u00a0\u2032s rape\u00a0retrial<\/a>\u00a0returned to court Friday, a day after she said she was\u00a0having difficulty focusing<\/a>, and finished five days of fraught, often tearful testimony.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not doing too good right now, so I\u2019m really trying to remember,\u201d Jessica Mann said as a defense lawyer resumed scrutinizing her communications and get-togethers with the former movie magnate after the alleged 2013 rape. She added: \u201cI feel like I said a lot, and I\u2019m trying to get through this.\u201d<\/p>\n But Mann went on to respond to hours of questions, at times seeming exhausted or asking for queries to be repeated. By the end of the day, as prosecutors took their second turn asking questions, she was slumped with her head propped on her left hand, weeping as she said she was being \u201cas truthful and transparent as I can possibly be.\u201d<\/p>\n Mann, 40, and Weinstein, 73, are in the midst of the third trial about her accusation that he forced himself on her in a New York hotel room. Weinstein\u2019s lawyers say everything that happened between the two was consensual and part of a four-year, caring relationship.<\/p>\n He was initially\u00a0convicted in 2020<\/a>, but an appeals court\u00a0overturned that verdict<\/a>, and jurors at a retrial last year\u00a0stopped deliberating<\/a>\u00a0on the rape charge when the foreperson refused to participate further. That left the case unresolved and led to the ongoing re-retrial.<\/p>\n The Associated Press does not identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they agree to be named, as Mann has done.<\/p>\n Weinstein was a high-flying film producer until allegations about him\u00a0fueled the #MeToo movement<\/a>\u00a0against sexual misconduct in 2017. He\u00a0has said<\/a>\u00a0he \u201cacted wrongly, but I never assaulted anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n He and Mann met in early 2013, when he was a studio boss and she was a 27-year-old hairstylist and actor trying to build a movie career. She\u00a0has testified<\/a>\u00a0that he soon started making advances, and although she was taken aback, she decided to embark on a relationship with the then-married Weinstein.<\/p>\n She alleges<\/a>\u00a0that in March 2013, he trapped her in a midtown Manhattan hotel room, angrily ordered her to undress as he loomed over her, ignored her protests and raped her.<\/p>\n