“I began to feel brainwashed,” she testified in court, during Larry Nassar’s trial in January 2018. “It was as if I had never accused him. I felt I was losing my grip on reality. I started to question whether the abuse ever happened.” She would replay the traumatizing incidents again and again in her mind, in an effort to retain her hold on the truth—and so she wouldn’t forget that she wasn’t the liar.
