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Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial in Manhattan ran about 45 minutes shorter than planned Thursday after the judge took breaks when his accuser, Jessica Mann, said testifying was affecting her mental state.

Mann, who was scheduled to continue for a fifth day on Friday, was questioned about a previously undisclosed note she wrote to herself two days after the alleged assault in 2013. During the afternoon, court moved into testimony about what Mann said happened in a Manhattan hotel room, and she told the judge that she was feeling “spacey” from the difficulty of testifying. After a break, Mann returned and said she felt “dissociated” and sensed she wasn’t hearing properly because of stress, adding that she hadn’t gotten much sleep.

Prosecutors and the defense centered the note on how Mann described her feelings about attachment and a relationship that was not exclusive. Mann testified that in the sketchy, journal-like missive she wrote on March 20, 2013, she described becoming “emotionally attached” to someone and wanting a “loving partnership,” but she did not name the person. The defense pointed out that Mann wrote nothing in the note about having been raped.

The note, the court heard, was written after Mann had returned to her Los Angeles home from New York, where she says Weinstein forced himself on her. She had continued to see him socially afterward, including at one point marking his March 19 birthday by having tea with him and his daughter.

Mann also described fears of rejection in the note and reflected on questioning the “woulds and would nots” she had set for herself. She wrote about seeking God’s guidance as she grappled with the inner conflict she described, and in court, she testified that passage related to her feeling “very controlled.”

Through cross-examination, Weinstein attorney Teny Geragos suggested the note reflected Mann’s feelings about being involved with the then-married Weinstein, describing the emotions as complicated. The jury is hearing Mann’s accounts as the case moves through the third time she has testified against Weinstein, 73, after he was initially convicted in 2020. An appeals court overturned that verdict for reasons unrelated to her testimony, and the jury at his first retrial last year did not decide the rape charge.

Mann has acknowledged that she and Weinstein had a consensual, on-again-off-again sexual relationship. She alleges it degenerated into rape in New York in March 2013 and again some months later in Beverly Hills, California; Weinstein has never been charged with any crime related to the California allegation.

Mann told jurors this week that Weinstein “just treated me like he owned me,” and she also testified earlier this week that despite the alleged rape, she loved “a part of him” because he could be kind and encouraging about her personal struggles and professional dreams. She said the two had “some pretty human moments” together.

Geragos asked what Weinstein did that made parts of her “really love him,” and Mann said it was “the validation.” Geragos later asked about the “human moments” and whether Mann had slapped Weinstein, and Mann said she had done so thinking he was inviting it as sex play, but that he later told her, “Jess, that’s not you.”

Mann and Weinstein met at a Los Angeles-area party around early 2013, when Mann was financially struggling but aspiring to make it big in show business. Weinstein has denied sexually assaulting anyone, and his lawyers have maintained that everything that happened between them was consensual and part of a supportive, caring relationship, while also arguing that Mann later accused him only after allegations about him helped power the #MeToo movement.

The Associated Press does not identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they agree to be named, as Mann has done.