Herschel Walker’s second abortion accuser reveals her face in TV interview

A lady who final week anonymously accused Republican Senate hopeful Herschel Walker of pressuring her to have an abortion stated she determined to indicate her face after the anti-abortion candidate referred to as her a liar.

“I’ve stored this to myself for 30 years,” the lady, who nonetheless selected to be known as “Jane Doe,” stated in an on-camera interview that aired Tuesday on ABC Information’ “Good Morning America.”

“I protected him. And I needed this to stay non-public, for apparent causes,” the lady stated.

Doe is the second lady to allege that Walker, a former professional soccer participant working to unseat incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in Georgia, had pressured and paid for her to get an abortion once they have been in a relationship years earlier.

The 2 candidates seem like in a lifeless warmth within the last dash to the Nov. 8 midterms.

Weeks earlier, a special lady had accused Walker of paying for her abortion in 2009 after which urging her to get a second one two years later. That lady, who additionally stored her id non-public, informed The New York Instances and The Day by day Beast that she didn’t terminate the second being pregnant and has raised the son she had with Walker largely with out his assist.

Walker, a critic of absentee fathers who has expressed assist for an abortion ban with out exceptions, has denied the allegations from each ladies.

The second lady’s allegations got here to mild Wednesday at a press convention led by famed ladies’s rights legal professional Gloria Allred. Reporters at that Los Angeles occasion heard from the accuser however didn’t see her face.

She stated she determined to return ahead after listening to Walker deny the primary lady’s accusations, partly by claiming he by no means signed letters with an “H.”

“I knew I had many playing cards from him the place he signed the letter ‘H.’ And so I believed then that she was telling the reality,” Doe stated within the televised interview.

Walker, in a press release responding to Doe’s new interview, informed NBC Information, “This was a lie per week in the past and it’s a lie as we speak.”

“Seven days earlier than an election, the Democrats trot out Gloria Allred and a few lady I have no idea,” Walker’s assertion stated. “My opponents will do and say something to win this election. Your entire Democrat machine is coming after me and the individuals of Georgia. I’m not intimidated. As soon as once more, they messed with the fallacious Georgian.”

The lady, who says she is a registered unbiased who voted for former President Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020, stated she was motivated by the reality, not politics, to return ahead together with her accusation.

“I feel honesty issues,” she stated when requested why she believes Walker isn’t match to serve within the U.S. Senate.

She confirmed playing cards allegedly written by Walker, in addition to resort receipts from once they stayed collectively throughout their six-year affair that started within the late Eighties, when Walker was enjoying for the Dallas Cowboys and was married to his then-wife, Cindy DeAngelis Grossman. Allred in final week’s press convention had additionally performed audio from a 1992 voicemail that Walker allegedly left for the lady whereas he was competing on the U.S. bobsled crew within the Winter Olympics in France.

The lady stated that in 1993 she unexpectedly grew to become pregnant, regardless of being on contraception. She went to an abortion clinic in Dallas, however at first grew to become overwhelmed and didn’t undergo with it. She stated Walker then drove her again to the clinic, then waited within the automobile whereas she went in alone.

Walker gave her money to get the abortion, she stated, and she or he has no receipts or different information to indicate she bought the process.

Walker “was very clear that he didn’t need me to have the kid,” Doe stated. “He stated that, due to his spouse’s household and highly effective individuals round him, that I might not be secure and that the kid wouldn’t be secure.”

It was “very menacing,” she added. “And I felt threatened, and I assumed I had no alternative.”

After she bought the abortion, she stated, Walker started distancing himself from her. She left Dallas quickly after. Walker has sometimes reached out to her, based on the interview. The phase additionally included a 2019 photograph displaying the lady and Walker standing collectively and smiling.

“I informed my dad and mom I had a miscarriage,” the visibly emotional lady stated, “as a result of I could not inform them the reality. And I informed just a few buddies the identical factor, as a result of I could not inform them the reality.”

“It simply was very shameful, and I felt like I had been manipulated,” she stated.