The second woman to accuse Georgia senatorial candidate Herschel Walker of paying for her abortion showed her face during an interview but still asked to be referred to as “Jane Doe.”
On Oct. 26, during a Zoom call with reporters, Doe claimed that Walker encouraged her to get an abortion and paid for it. Her name and face were not shared during the length of that call.
Doe ultimately decided to appear on ABC News with reporter Juju Chang and show her face to talk about her experience with Walker after she heard him call the allegations against him “lies.”
“I kept this to myself for 30 years,” she said. “I protected him, and I wanted this to remain private for obvious reasons.”
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During his campaign, Walker has voiced strict anti-abortion policies. A bombshell report released by the Daily Beast earlier this year accused Walker of paying for a woman’s abortion and sending her a get-well card.
She said she was prompted to come forward with her story after she heard the first woman share hers and after Walker claimed that he had never signed anything with the letter “H,” dismissing the woman’s allegations.
“I knew I had many cards from him where he signed the letter ‘H,'” she said. “So I believed, then, that she was telling the truth.”
Doe showed several cards during the interview that were allegedly signed by Walker with the large “H,” as well as hotel receipts from where she would meet Walker “before or after home games.”
“He often told me in writing, and every time we had a conversation, how much he loved me and how much I meant to him, and that I was who he wanted to be with,” she said.
She got pregnant and had the abortion in 1993, she said, during their almost decadelong relationship, which began after the couple met in the 1980s.
“He was very clear that he did not want me to have the child, and he said that because of his wife’s family and powerful people around him that I would not be safe and the child would not be safe,” she said.
She said it was very menacing and she felt threatened and had no choice but to go along with it. Doe first went to an abortion clinic but could not go through with it, but Walker allegedly pressured her to go back and have the abortion while he waited outside in the car. He gave her cash, she said, so there would be no trace of the transaction.
Doe had to tell her parents and a few friends that she had a miscarriage because she “couldn’t tell them the truth.”
“It just was very shameful,” she said. “I felt like I had been manipulated.”
One friend, who knew about the alleged affair, shared a photo with ABC News of Doe and Walker in 2019.
“He embraced her, and that embrace, it was very emotional,” she claims. “It lasted longer than a normal embrace. It was like they’d known each other for years and years and years, which I’d known they had.”
Walker has adamantly denied her claims, stating that it is “foolishness” and he will not entertain the subject anymore. Despite the many scandals, the Republican Party, both local and national, has continued to support Walker.
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Doe told Chang that she is a registered independent and voted for former President Donald Trump twice during his presidential races, so this is not motivated by politics.
“Herschel Walker looked the American people in the eye after she spoke out last week and said it was a lie, both women were liars,” Doe’s lawyer, Gloria Allred, said during the interview. “And she’s now looking American people in the eye, and she’s telling her truth.”
