i feel
sick violated um
i don't i just it makes me sick
my name is amy dorris i am from florida
i'm a former model and actress and i am
here today to talk about an incident
that happened a long time ago
with donald trump and
i think it's time to speak out about it
and how are you feeling about speaking
out about that today
it's a little nerve-wracking but i think
it's you know it's time
at the age of 24 i think i thought
i could do just about anything and i
didn't
have enough fear even though i probably
should have
given other things have gone in my life
i was
very social i was very outgoing
i was a little naive
i think um it was september of 1997
and i was invited by jason binn who i
was
dating at the time to go to new york and
part of that trip was
going to the u.s open we ended up
with donald trump you know i went to his
office i was at his home
uh the versace memorial like various
events
in a span of a few days you know he was
very
flirty came on very strong
right away um
you know it seemed you know kind of
typical of a certain guy you know people
who
just feel like they're entitled to to do
what they want and
forward and even though i was there with
my boyfriend
we pulled up at the u.s open and we got
out of the car
there were people asking for autographs
from donald and
then i actually even signed some
autographs myself
um at first it was like i was fine and
then
um you know i was just meeting people
and
it was nice i was getting a lot of
attention from everyone because i was
like a new person
in the box with trump there was a lot of
executives
mary lou whitney vanderbilt who was a
socialite and
the part of the vanderbilt family and
her husband
i was talking with them quite a bit i
went to the restroom
and which by the way is
there's a door that you go through and
the restroom is
hidden behind it so it's not visible to
anybody
that's in the box when i came out of the
bathroom
donald was waiting outside the bathroom
and initially i thought
that he was waiting to go to the
bathroom
but that wasn't the case unfortunately
um he i don't remember what he said but
he was
talking said something and but he i was
just like no
no no and i was like let nervous laugh
laughing like no you know get away but
then he just grabbed me
and he just shoved his tongue down my
throat and i was pushing him off and
then that's when his grip became tighter
and um you know his hands were kind of
like very gropey and all over you know
my my butt
my my breasts my back like everything
and
but he was just like his grip was hard
you know you couldn't pull away
i was pushing his his tongue out of my
towel
my mouth with my teeth uh
it was pretty um traumatic
and jarring and shocking um
it felt like it went on for a long time
but it probably didn't i don't even know
but i couldn't get him to let go i've
always described this
as like he it felt like an octopus
was hugging onto me i know a couple
other people have said the same thing um
but it's truly what it felt like you
just picture those suction cups on an
octopus and
they're stuck on you and there's like
you're trapped that's how i felt i felt
trapped
and did you tell him to stop yes i did
but it was like clearly
no meant yes it's a kind of
sorry i know it's it's it can't be an
easy thing to to talk about
um it's making me nauseous to talk about
okay and tell us what happened after
afterwards then what did you do
afterwards
it's not completely clear i just
remember feeling very uncomfortable
i called another longtime friend of mine
who lived in new york
and told him exactly the same thing i
just described to him
what had happened and i think i just
felt safe knowing that i had someone in
new york that i could go
to god forbid you know it got worse
so um yeah i just kind of just kept
going with the flow and
kind of put it in a compartment and i'm
like i'm gonna deal with this later
you know that sort of thing so some
people
might ask why you've chosen this moment
to come forward
with this allegation what do you say to
them
um i chose to come forward now because
um i feel like i've spent a lot of years
not
speaking up about it i feel sick
violated um
i don't i just it makes me sick and um
i think that
i've been really quiet about it for a
long time
and i i don't know i just feel like i
don't want to be quiet anymore
and then how are you feeling about
coming forward now i don't feel safe
but i don't feel i don't care because
people need to hear this you know i've
had a couple friends that i've talked to
and they're like well it seems like you
might just want attention or um
you know he didn't rape you and i'm like
no he didn't rape me thank god a
violation is a violation
when you invade someone's space it
doesn't matter if you were raped
it's sexual assault and
it's not okay you don't touch someone
unless they want to be touched
and i did nothing to encourage him to
touch me and now i feel
like my girls are about to turn 13 years
old
and i want them to know that you don't
you don't let anybody do anything to you
that you don't want and
i'd rather be a role model i want them
to see that i didn't
stay quiet that i stood up to somebody
who did something that was unacceptable
and i i want people to know
that this is this is the man this is our
president
you know this is the kind of thing he
does and it's unacceptable
you