Chanel Miller woke up in a hospital after blacking out at a fraternity party at Stanford not knowing what had happened to her. She admits she had drank a mixture of vodka, whiskey and champagne.
Doctors examined her and told her she had been sexually assaulted. She had no idea of what had happened to her until she read about it on the news.
“In order to survive, you just shut everything down. You have to function. You have to go to work in the morning. So it’s much easier to just repress everything,” she told 60 Minutes in an exclusive interview aired last night.
It was days later when the story popped up on her social media news feed.
“Yes. It was surreal having the news broken to me by the internet. I was alone, sitting at my desk, surrounded by coworkers, reading about how I was stripped and then penetrated and discarded in a bed of pine needles behind a dumpster. And that’s how I figured out all of those elements. And they all added up. And I finally understood,” she said.
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She acknowledges she had too much to drink, but doesn’t back down to those who may feel she had it coming.
“Rape is not a punishment for getting drunk. And we have this really sick mindset in our culture, as if you deserve rape if you drink to excess. You deserve a hangover, a really bad hangover, but you don’t deserve to have somebody insert their body parts inside of you.”
Brock Turner received six months in jail for sexual assault. The nation reacted with outrage. Two years later, Judge Aaron Persky would be recalled by 60 percent of the vote.
Miller wrote about her experience in a book due out tomorrow entitled Know My Name.
You can watch the entire 60 Minutes interview here. If you want to see it, don’t hesitate. CBS is likely to put the interview behind a pay wall soon.
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