Rihanna

I think every time those cases were closed or the lawsuit was shut down, it just eroded any confidence or any power I felt.

And Miranda reached out to me and texted me and said that she was doing this interview.

Trying to share your story and trying to share your experience matters.

It may feel like no one is listening or that you're voiceless or powerless and you're not.

When the lawsuit ended, I never thought I would have an opportunity to speak out and to share about this.

Keep trying, keep sharing, keep protecting.

I think the Title IX office really took advantage of a bunch of naive girls in a number of ways.

And one of them was telling me that it would be anonymous, that Miranda wouldn't see any information that would clue in to the fact that it was me who said this.

Trojan Women was the last show I was in at UCO, and it was with Cato.

I actually was planning on not coming back to UCO that semester.

I didn't have the funds to enroll, and Cato offered, I really want to cast you in this role, so you need to be a student.

Enroll in these classes, and I'll give you a scholarship of this much money, and we'll talk to the bursar and make sure you can

stay in school, which I thought was so weird because he and I both knew that I had participated in this Title IX case against him.

And I think it was like a form of cleanup.

I need to change Rihanna's mind about this.

And she needs to know that I'm actually a good person or something, or I need to have a form of control over Rihanna again.

It was a show about sexual assault.

It was a show about women in a war-torn time and the terror that they face.

And then also there were pop musical numbers in between making light of this situation.

awful, anxiety-inducing, nightmarish, so confusing.