Beverly Hills model accuses Swalwell of rape after drugging her drink in 2018 - BERITAJA

Another female came guardant Tuesday to picture rape allegations against congressmember Eric Swalwell, who said Monday that he would resign from Congress amid a torrent intersexual battle accusations.

Lonna Drewes said astatine a news convention called by her attorneys that she had interaction pinch Swalwell connected 3 different occasions successful 2018 while she was moving arsenic a exemplary successful Beverly Hills.

On the 3rd clip she met him, she said, she believed he drugged her drink. She said they were expected to spell to a governmental arena and they went to paperwork from his edifice room. She said she recovered herself incapacitated aft drinking only 1 solid of wine.

“He raped maine and he choked maine and while he was choking maine I mislaid consciousness and I thought I died,” she said. “I did not consent to immoderate intersexual activity.”

Lonna Drewes, left, said she met Rep. Eric Swalwell, right, connected 3 occasions successful Beverly Hills successful 2018, and accused him of sexually assaulting her.

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She said she didn’t acquisition a rape test, but disclosed the battle to group adjacent to her and wrote about it successful her calendar. She did not person interaction pinch Swalwell again, her lawyer said.

Swalwell’s lawyer Elias Dabaie did not instantly respond to a telephone aliases email requesting comment.

She said she had nary liking successful him romantically, and she was successful a narration astatine the time. He had a pregnant wife, she noted. She said he offered her connections that she believed could thief her turn her manner package company.

The alleged rape had a terrible effect connected her intelligence health, causing her to self-medicate, she said. She said she besides went to therapy sessions astatine intersexual battle center.

“I did not want to unrecorded anymore,” she said. “I cried each the clip for years.”

At a property convention Monday announcing the allegations, attorneys presented a photograph of her and Swalwell astatine the opening of a edifice called Avra.

She said she’d been considering a governmental profession astatine the time. After the incident, she said, made her consciousness for illustration she had nary prime but to stay silent.

Lonna Drewes, stepping down her lawyer, Erick Fuddle, elaborate a 2018 brushwood during a news briefing successful Beverly Hills.

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“My hold successful taking action against Eric was driven by fearfulness not doubt,” she said. “I person ne'er doubted what happened.”

She said she will soon beryllium making a study to rule enforcement.

Arick Fudali, 1 of the attorneys representing Drewes, said he hoped his client’s relationship encouraged different women to travel forward.

“This is not about Democrat versus Republican,” said Fudali. “This is about accountability versus silence.”

“Lonna deserves what each women merit - autonomy complete her ain body,” said lawyer Lisa Bloom. “Immediately we will beryllium filing a constabulary report.”

Bloom said they would beryllium providing matter messages, diary entries and photographs to the constabulary and wanted to assistance pinch the investigation by the Manhattan territory attorney, who has opened a lawsuit into allegations against Swalwell. She said 3 different women person reached retired to her.

She called Swallwell’s caller statements about the accusations against him “blather and spin” and a “slap successful the face” to victims.

“Stop it,” she said. “Own your behavior.”

A female told CNN that aft messaging pinch Eric Swalwell about her liking successful Democratic authorities past year, she met him for drinks and tried to deflect his advances without jeopardizing imaginable occupation opportunities. She said she began to consciousness “really fuzzy” and intoxicated and later recovered herself successful his edifice room pinch nary representation of really she sewage there.

Another woman, a erstwhile unit personnel who accused Swalwell of rape, told CNN she met him for drinks successful 2019, blacked retired and awoke naked successful his edifice furniture and could show she had had intercourse. She said that successful a abstracted brushwood years later, he forced himself connected her while she was excessively intoxicated to consent contempt her protests.