Before the trial, prosecutors talked to a woman.

But the jury didn't hear Kaja Sokola's story.

On Wednesday, Sokola started to tell her story to a new group of people.

Sokola walked past Weinstein in court. She did not look at him. He is on trial again. An earlier court decision changed things. Now, Weinstein is on trial for these charges again. Prosecutors added another charge about Sokola.

She started to talk about her life. The man looked at her with his hand on his mouth. He listened carefully.

Weinstein says he is not guilty. His lawyers say the women agreed to sex because they wanted jobs in movies and on TV. The lawyers also say the women stayed in touch with him after.

Sokola is from Poland and is 39 years old. She helps people and writes books. She also started a company that makes movies. She sued Weinstein in 2017 because people said he was bad to women. Later, she got $3.5 million.

Sokola liked acting and writing, not modeling. But her family wanted her to enter a modeling contest. She won and started modeling while still in school.

She said she learned a lot in the next two years. In 2002, she was 16. She was in New York alone to find modeling jobs.

Sokola will talk more on Thursday. They did not ask her about Weinstein yet. They said she met him in New York in 2002. She was there for modeling.

Sokola said she met Weinstein. He asked her to lunch to talk about her job. Then, he hurt her. She said he was bad to her for many years.

She says the man made her do something bad in a hotel in New York in 2006.

They say it happened after he helped her get a small part in a movie. He also met her sister.

Her sister said she was happy to know him.

She said they met in a hotel. They talked about Italian films. Then he left with the model.

Kaja Sokola was nervous when she came back later.

She said she was surprised. She read about it in a magazine after many years.

Weinstein's lawyers can ask Kaja Sokola questions soon.

Sokola's lawyers called the police before the trial. The police started to look, but they stopped when he went to prison and the virus came.

They started the Sokola investigation again after the court in New York said Weinstein was not guilty.

Weinstein's lawyers did not want Sokola's story in court. They said the other side put a new problem in the case to help other people's stories.

Miriam Haley said last week that Weinstein hurt her in 2006.

The Associated Press does not usually say the names of women who say someone hurt them in a sexual way. They can say the names because the women said it is okay.