Heisman Trophy winner and Republican candidate for US Senate Herschel Walker speaks at a rally on May 23, 2022 in Athens, Georgia. Tomorrow is the Primary Election Day within the state of Georgia.
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A girl who last week anonymously accused Republican Senate hopeful Herschel Walker of pressuring her to have an abortion said she decided to indicate her face after the anti-abortion candidate called her a liar.
“I’ve kept this to myself for 30 years,” the girl, who still selected to be known as “Jane Doe,” said in an on-camera interview that aired Tuesday on ABC News’ “Good Morning America.”
“I protected him. And I wanted this to stay private, for obvious reasons,” the girl said.
Doe is the second woman to allege that Walker, a former pro football player running to unseat incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in Georgia, had pressured and paid for her to get an abortion after they were in a relationship years earlier.
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Weeks earlier, a unique woman had accused Walker of paying for her abortion in 2009 after which urging her to get a second one two years later. That woman, who also kept her identity private, told The Latest York Times and The Day by day Beast that she didn’t terminate the second pregnancy and has raised the son she had with Walker largely without his help.
Walker, a critic of absentee fathers who has expressed support for an abortion ban without exceptions, has denied the allegations from each women.
The second woman’s allegations got here to light Wednesday at a press conference led by famed women’s rights attorney Gloria Allred. Reporters at that Los Angeles event heard from the accuser but didn’t see her face.
She said she decided to return forward after hearing Walker deny the primary woman’s accusations, partly by claiming he never signed letters with an “H.”
“I knew I had many cards from him where he signed the letter ‘H.’ And so I believed then that she was telling the reality,” Doe said within the televised interview.
Walker, in a press release responding to Doe’s recent interview, told NBC News, “This was a lie every week ago and it’s a lie today.”
“Seven days before an election, the Democrats trot out Gloria Allred and a few woman I have no idea,” Walker’s statement said. “My opponents will do and say anything to win this election. All the Democrat machine is coming after me and the people of Georgia. I’m not intimidated. Once more, they messed with the unsuitable Georgian.”
The girl, who says she is a registered independent who voted for former President Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020, said she was motivated by the reality, not politics, to return forward along with her accusation.
“I feel honesty matters,” she said when asked why she believes Walker isn’t fit to serve within the U.S. Senate.
She showed cards allegedly written by Walker, in addition to hotel receipts from after they stayed together during their six-year affair that began within the late Eighties, when Walker was playing for the Dallas Cowboys and was married to his then-wife, Cindy DeAngelis Grossman. Allred in last week’s press conference had also played audio from a 1992 voicemail that Walker allegedly left for the girl while he was competing on the U.S. bobsled team within the Winter Olympics in France.
The girl said that in 1993 she unexpectedly became pregnant, despite being on contraception. She went to an abortion clinic in Dallas, but at first became overwhelmed and didn’t undergo with it. She said Walker then drove her back to the clinic, then waited within the automobile while she went in alone.
Walker gave her money to get the abortion, she said, and he or she has no receipts or other records to indicate she got the procedure.
Walker “was very clear that he didn’t want me to have the kid,” Doe said. “He said that, due to his wife’s family and powerful people around him, that I might not be protected and that the kid wouldn’t be protected.”
It was “very menacing,” she added. “And I felt threatened, and I assumed I had no alternative.”
After she got the abortion, she said, Walker began distancing himself from her. She left Dallas soon after. Walker has occasionally reached out to her, in line with the interview. The segment also included a 2019 photo showing the girl and Walker standing together and smiling.
“I told my parents I had a miscarriage,” the visibly emotional woman said, “because I could not tell them the reality. And I told a number of friends the identical thing, because I could not tell them the reality.”
“It just was very shameful, and I felt like I had been manipulated,” she said.
