Q: What do you think it would have meant to you to have the #MeToo movement when you came out about being abused?
A: Those first few weeks and months waiting to see if anyone else was going to speak up was absolutely hellish. Within 24 hours, Nassar knew that I'd come forward. And I was alone. That was really scary.
In the first few weeks until the child porn was found, the things that were said about me, the things that were said about Jamie (Dantzscher), who was anonymous at the time, were really quite vile. And it demonstrated perfectly why these victims were silent.
I was not surprised. I knew what the cost would be.
With Harvey Weinstein, people are asking, why didn't these women speak up earlier? The process you have to go through is so revictimizing. Then, society as a whole has really turned against you for speaking up. Victims know they're going to be vilified. Their character is going to come under attack immediately.
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