“She was at first hesitant to speak publicly, partly because her memories contained gaps because she had been drinking at the time of the alleged incident.”
“If it wasn’t bent, she must relent....”
I remember a man in the military like that. When sober, he could not remember anything he did when he was drunk as a skunk.
BUT, give him a few drinks and soon he was drunk enough, would remember everything he could not remember when sober.
Maybe she should get drunk before testifying.