In an exclusive interview with ABC News, the second woman who accused Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker of pressuring her into having an abortion not only defended her claims, but shared that she felt “threatened." Identified as Jane Doe for her safety, the woman said she felt the need to come forward after another woman made similar claims, adding that Walker was not fit for office because "honesty matters.”
Speaking to ABC News' Nightline, the woman shared that she became pregnant in 1993 during a years-long affair with Walker, noting that they saw each other "several times a week, usually in the mornings.”
"[Walker] was very clear that he did not want me to have the child. And he said that because of his wife's family and powerful people around him that I would not be safe and that the child would not be safe," the woman said. "I felt threatened and I thought I had no choice,” she added.
During the interview, Doe recalled going to a clinic to have an abortion before having a change of heart. "I guess it is part of the procedure then that they did an ultrasound. And I saw the ultrasound and I couldn't go through with it. So I left the clinic and went back home," she said.
She said that Walker then told her he would drive her to the clinic to have the procedure.
"He came to my house and picked me up and drove me to the clinic," the woman recalled. "I went in alone and he waited in the car while I went in and had the procedure. And then I came out and he drove me to the drugstore, and then he took me home."
She noted that while she has no receipt for the payment or record of the procedure, Walker gave her cash to pay for it.
But that’s not all, according to Doe, the two maintained a friendly relationship for decades and last spoke in March 2020. Two women, identified as friends of Doe, told ABC News that Doe confided to them in the 1990s of this incident and her affair with Walker.
Doe told ABC News that while she never intended to take interviews or speak publically about the abortion, but she changed her mind when Walker dismissed the allegations as “foolishness,” saying, “this is all a lie, and I will not entertain any of it.”
“I’ve kept this to myself for thirty years. I protected him,” Doe said. She added that she told her parents and friends that she’d lost the child in a miscarriage. “It was very shameful. I felt like I had been manipulated.”
Walker, who is running on a strong anti-abortion-rights platform, also issued a statement in response to the ABC News interview Tuesday.
He said: "This was a lie a week ago and it is a lie today. Seven days before an election, the Democrats trot out Gloria Allred and some woman I do not know. My opponents will do and say anything to win this election. The entire Democrat machine is coming after me and the people of Georgia. I am not intimidated. Once again, they messed with the wrong Georgian."
While the ABC News interview was the first time she appeared on camera and spoke of the abortion, Doe initially shared evidence of having ties with Walker last week through attorney Gloria Allred. "I was devastated because I felt that I had been pressured into having an abortion,” she said at the time.
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