Miranda

Rihanna knew that we had started to see each other and that we were in a relationship with air quotes around it because relationship is the best word that I can have for whatever this was.

She was the only person that knew what was actually happening and she knew that it was happening as it was progressing.

She knew that we were having sexual contact.

Right before the Title IX was filed, Kato had been to my apartment to hang out.

Rihanna knew that we would have hooked up at my apartment.

It also was cathartic for me to be able to tell someone.

I didn't necessarily realize that I was actively in the cycle of abuse as far as she knew.

It was consensual and we were in love.

And what was her attitude about it?

I think because he did such a good job as painting himself out to be a really big feminist and like a really big supporter of women, she, I think, was pretty convinced that it was totally consensual.

And I think she also, because of how I spoke about it, really believed that it was just a product of...

the environment that we were in and that the relationship would have happened anywhere else if he were not my professor and if I were not his student.

Here's Rihanna.

All of the sudden, all of my merit at school, which was that I was a pretty good actor and was cast in a lot of important things by him, was now in my head dismantled because I was in a relationship with him.

Hi, my name is Miranda and I live in Brooklyn, New York.

I am originally from Oklahoma.

I'm here mostly because of my best friend, Olivia, who is pretty integral to the story.

Olivia and I studied theater in college, and it's a huge part of why I'm telling this story and what happened to me.

And Olivia was there for all of it.

Her being my best friend has given me a lot of the strength and bravery that I have to be able to speak out about what happened to me.