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TheDesperate Housewivesstar shared an open letter addressed toPresident Donald Trumpon Wednesday, remembering the moment she was sexually abused in a car.
“Here’s what I remember: His erect penis, that he was stroking as he sat behind the wheel of the car. ‘Do you want to touch it?’ he asked. I said, ‘No.’ He took my hand to touch it anyway. It was pink. There were tissues. I didn’t know what they were for, but then I did,” Hatcher wrote on Instagram.
“I was face down on the seat looking at the floor as he violated me. He said, ‘Do you like how this feels?’ I said, ‘No.’ He said, ‘Someday you will,’ ” she continued.
Recalling the moment, Hatcher admitted that she did not remember, “the address of where it happened. How I got there. How I got home. What day or month it was. If anyone was drinking beer.”
Her detailed account comes a week after Christine Blasey Ford — a 51-year-old research psychologist and professor at Palo Alto University — testified at a Senate hearing about herclaims that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted herat a high school party in the 1980s. During the hearing, Ford couldn’t recall some details about the alleged sexual assault, includinghow she got home.
Kavanaugh, 53, has adamantly denied the allegation, and the FBI wrapped up aninvestigationon the claims Thursday. The FBI report onsexual assault allegations against Kavanaughwas delivered to the Senate Judiciary Committee at 2:30 a.m. on Thursday,CNNreported. Senators will take a procedural vote Friday andcould hold the final vote Saturday.
On Tuesday night,Donald Trumpsarcastically mimickedFord’s testimony at a rally in Mississippi.
Now, Hatcher, 53, is calling out thepresidentforallegedly mockingany victim’s account of sexual assault.
“Mr. President, I am a survivor, who stands available to help you understand the way the memories of a trauma like that work. It might be hard for you to understand. I can readily explain in detail that ‘I don’t remember’ is often the most honest response surrounding questions of an assault,” Hatcher continued in her post.
Santa Clara, California, Deputy District Attorney Chuck Gillingham said it was Hatcher’s testimony that eventually led to a guilty plea from Stone and a 14-year prison sentence.
“Without Teri, this case would have been dismissed,” Gillingham toldVanity Fair.
Hatcher said that she kept the abuse, which took place when she was 5, a secret from everyone, including her parents. She last saw Stone when she was 8 or 9 years old.
“That’s a victim thing; you ask yourself, ‘Am I just crazy? Did I make all this up?’ Somehow it might be easier to accept that you’re crazy and made it all up than to admit that it happened, and how awful it was,” she said.
source: people.com
