Ummmm blackmail? I mean, it sure does sound like he raped her.
Taylor’s attorney says she cut off all contact with Brown after that incident. But in February 2018, she says Brown reached out to her again, “thanking her for help in the off-season and stating that he would love to continue working with her under the ‘right circumstance.’ He also mentioned that unlike many of the other people that surrounded him, she had ‘a great heart and . . . cared about him.'” Her attorneys say she didn’t respond.
In early March 2018, Brown texted her and asked if she hated him. According to the lawsuit he said,”‘I apologize first off with so much going on around me and my actions.’ He asked for her to train him again, assuring her that things would be different.”
Taylor said she agreed, but only if Brown agreed to stop flirting with her and provided her separate hotel accomodations when she came to train him. In April 2018, she began working with him during off-season weekends.
According to the lawsuit, the third incident, the alleged rape, occurred on May 20, 2018, when Brown invited Taylor and another football player who trained with them, who is not named in the lawsuit, to go out in Miami. After they returned to his house from a club, her attorneys say:
Ms. Taylor was planning to immediately drive to her hotel room but went into Brown’s home to use the restroom and grab some food from the kitchen. While Ms. Taylor was walking toward the front door, Brown grabbed her arm, told her he wanted to talk to her, and pulled her into his bedroom. They chatted for a few minutes, and when Ms. Taylor went to walk out of the room, Brown cornered her and pulled her down on the bed on her stomach, pushing her face down into the mattress.
She attempted to physically resist, but he pinned her down so that she was unable to fight back. As she struggled, he lifted her dress and told her, ‘you know you want this.’ Ms. Taylor pleaded with him, shouting ‘no’ and ‘stop.’ But Brown refused and proceeded with great violence to penetrate her. Ms. Taylor protested and cried the entire time. When Brown finally released her, Ms. Taylor stood up in a state of trauma and shock, crying in front of him.
Devastated and disoriented, she ran into his foyer and collapsed on the ground. No one came to her rescue or to help her in any way. She was completely alone. Eventually she summoned the strength to pick herself off the floor, make it to the door, get into her car and drive — dazed and emotionally shattered—to her hotel. She was so exhausted that she fell asleep at a stoplight on the drive back.
According to her attorneys, Taylor went back to Brown’s house the next day to retrieve her belongings and they say she approached Brown to talk about what happened. She says he told her, “You made me feel like a real rapist.”