One of Roy Moore’s accusers admitted Friday that she added “notes” to Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore’s signature in her yearbook but insisted he did sign her yearbook in 1977.
The admission is likely to boost Moore’s defenders, who say Beverly Young Nelson and other women accusing him of sexual assault or harassment are not telling the truth.
Nelson leaned on her yearbook as evidence that Moore knew her and was pursuing her decades ago when she was a teenager and he was in his 30s. She said was worried Moore was going to rape her in his car years ago when he picked her up and tried to force her to perform oral sex.
But the writing in her yearbook was immediately scrutinized by some who said the writing appeared different near Moore’s signature.
“To a sweeter more beautiful girl I could not say Merry Christmas. Christmas 1977. Love, Roy Moore… Roy Moore, DA. 12-22-77 Olde Hickory House,” the inscription reads. But Nelson implied in an ABC interview that she added the date and address at the bottom.
Thomas Llamas, chief national correspondent for ABC, directly asked Nelson if Moore signed her yearbook.
“He did sign it,” Nelson replied.
“And you made some notes underneath?” Llamas asked.
“Yes,” she said, without being specific about what she added.
2. The date and location never looked like it was written by Moore anyway. But she should have disclosed that from the start. pic.twitter.com/r8jKKV7rI9
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) December 8, 2017
Nelson’s lawyer Gloria Allred initially attributed the entire inscription to Moore. But Nelson insisted that Moore did sign it.
Nelson also reiterated that her decision to come forward has nothing to do with politics and that she voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
