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Aces guard Justine Pissott voiced her support for the student who accused seven Cornell University fraternity brothers of rape, while revealing in the same message that the WNBA player had been a victim of sexual assault herself. Pissott posted a lengthy series of comments on her Instagram Story, showing her support for the unidentified woman suing Cornell and seven former Chi Pi fraternity members, alleging that she was drugged and gang-raped in 2024. The rookie WNBA player, who played college basketball at Tennessee and Vanderbilt, posted that she was writing a “vulnerable message but something that I want to share.”“As someone who has been drugged and rap**, the Cornell 7 situation has been really hard for me to see.It hits a place in me that I don’t talk about often,” Pissott wrote.
“When something like this happens to you, it doesn’t just end when that night ends.You carry it with you.
The confusion, the pieces you can’t remember, questioning yourself, blaming yourself, and trying to understand how someone could take advantage of you when you weren’t even able to protect yourself.“And then you see people questioning survivors.Asking why they didn’t speak sooner, why they stayed quiet, why they acted a certain way afterward.
But unless you’ve been through it, you really don’t understand what trauma can do to a person.There is no “right” way to respond to something that never should’ve happened to you in the first place.”Pissott, a Toms River, N.J., native, did not provide any further details about what allegedly happened to her or when it occurred. The second half of Pissott’s message focused on the current situation involving the horrific allegations made by the former Ivy League student, which have led to Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten reopening the case to seek a grand jury review. “My heart truly hurts for the survivor in the Cornell 7 situation,” Pissott wrote.
“I pray God covers her th...