The friend DM’ed E.M. just after 9 a.m. ET the next day — June 19, 2018. She asks E.M. if she made it home OK.
E.M. says she did, then asks her friend how she was doing.
The friend’s texts back and says it seemed as if E.M. was “having a blast” with “those guys.”
“Haha ya they were funny,” E.M. answers back.
In court, Brown asked E.M. why she didn’t say anything else about what happened at the hotel.
“Something horrible happened to me. I felt so much shame…,” she tells the lawyer.
The friend was a co-worker, a relative stranger, she adds.
“Shame and embarrassment for the choices you made,” Brown says.
“No! I’d like to finish,” E.M. says emphatically.
“I made the choice to dance with them and drink at the bar and not make the choice to have them do what they did to me at the hotel.”
