E. Jean Carroll Honored With Truth Seekers Award, Calls Donald Trump Verdict: ‘Happiest Day of My Life’
variety.comWilliam Earl Author and journalist E. Jean Carroll revealed what motivated her to go public with her rape accusations against former President Donald Trump and speculated on how he is handling Vice President Kamala Harris’ candidacy at Thursday’s Variety & Rolling Stone’s Truth Seekers Summit, presented by Paramount+, in New York.
Her attorney Roberta Kaplan, who won two judgments against Trump, was also onstage for the Truth Seekers chat with Rolling Stone’s Tessa Stone.
Carroll’s honor closed out the annual conference spotlighting documentary production and unscripted programming. Stone asked, “When Donald Trump announced he was running for president, when the ‘Access Hollywood’ tape came up, what were you thinking at those different points?” “I was never, never, ever going to speak about this.
And then both my parents died and that freed me,” Carroll said, explaining that her parents both died in 2016, shortly after the #MeToo movement began to gain traction nationally. “Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey, Ronan Farrow came forward with the Weinstein story, and women all over the country started to say what happened to them.
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