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Subject of debunked Rolling Stone rape article stands by interviews

Rolling Stone ultimately retracted its story.

In the first of the two videos, Hendley disavowed all of the quotes attributed to her in Erdely's story.

"I remember her telling me there was no way for me to pull out at that point", Jackie said.

Through a court deposition that was played for jurors on Monday, the public now knows what "Jackie" thinks of the discredited account she gave Rolling Stone two years ago. Her real name has not been revealed, and reporters were able to hear the audio but could not see her face, according to Yahoo. "I believe it to be true at the time".

In the recording, Jackie said she suffered from depression and suicidal thoughts, particularly in September, the month she claimed to have been gang raped in the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house in 2012.

Sabrina Rubin Erdely continued her testimony Monday in a court case over the article. Jackie, the former UVA student whose story anchored the 9,000-word feature, claimed to attorneys that Erdely allegedly misled her about the intent of the piece with a text message she perceived as meaning she couldn't change her mind about sharing her story in the magazine.

But she acknowledged that she was aware that aspects of Jackie's account had evolved over time, including a discrepancy in the number of men she said had attacked her. Garber-Paul said she knew that Jackie's friend Emily Renda had given congressional testimony in June 2014 referring to Jackie being assaulted by five fraternity brothers.

She says the article portrayed her as indifferent in dealing with sexual assault complaints and that the material Erdely gathered was to fit into a predetermined formula for a story on how colleges mishandle sexual assault incidents.

Seal:. I've spoken to a few trial attorneys who say it's just as likely they're going to show some live deposition video of Jackie rather than her actually showing up in person.

Ultimately, because "A Rape on Campus" relied so heavily on Jackie's recounting - and because Erdely did not attempt to contact any of Jackie's alleged assailants - both the author's credibility and Rolling Stone's was called into question. Before the article was published, Jackie said she remembered "feeling scared and overwhelmed and unsure of what to do". The article tells the story of a woman identified only as "Jackie", who claimed she was gang-raped. She even shared her story of an alleged assault at the annual Take Back the Night event.

Eramo is seeking $7.85 million, based on the damages inflicted upon her reputation, career and health.

Jackie Coakley, the woman behind a bogus gang rape allegation at the University of Virginia (UVA), says she was heavily pressured by Rolling Stone to have her story published.

Three of the fraternity members filed a lawsuit that was thrown out by the judge, and then a $25 million lawsuit was filed by the fraternity itself which will go into trial next year.

"When I got off the phone, I felt like the ground had shifted from under my feet", Erdely said in her Saturday testimony, according to The Washington Post. Jackie said she wasn't anxious about her real first name being used, but she didn't want to name the frat. While Erdely did interview Jackie's friends, classmates, and some school administrators about the allegations, she declined to contact the alleged attackers, out of respect for Jackie's sense of safety. "Probably because I'm afraid it will bring up a lot of.even, like, a lot of similarities".

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Subject of debunked Rolling Stone rape article stands by interviews