Author and journalist E. Jean Carroll revealed what motivated her to go public with her rape allegations against former President Donald Trump and speculated about Trump's handling of Vice President Kamala Harris' candidacy during Variety & Rolling Stone's Truth Seekers Summit, presented by Paramount+, in New York.
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Her attorney, Roberta Kaplan, who won two verdicts against Trump, was also onstage for the Truth Seekers chat with Rolling Stone’s Tessa Stone. Carroll’s honor capped the annual conference that spotlighted documentary production and unscripted programming.
Stone asked, “When Donald Trump announced he was running for president, when the 'Access Hollywood' tape came out, what did you think?”
“I would never, ever, ever talk about this. And then my parents both died and it freed me,” Carroll said, explaining that her parents both died in 2016, shortly after the #MeToo movement began to gain traction nationwide. “Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey, Ronan Farrow came out with the Weinstein story, and women all over the country started coming forward with what happened to them. I thought, ‘This is a possibility.’”
