“I don’t know where these feelings come from,” she said. “Social conditioning that everything is always the woman’s fault? That a man’s inability to keep himself off of our bodies is somehow because of us, not him?”

“I hope my coming forward will help others to know that they are not alone, that they are not to blame, and it is not their fault,” she concluded. “Just as the other women and men coming forward have helped me to realize the same. I hope that my stories and the stories of others help to reset and realign the toxic environments and power imbalances that have created these monsters.”