(CNN) When Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was barricaded inside her office during the Capitol insurrection on January 6, she not only feared that mob would kill her, but that she would be raped if the rioters found her. "I didn't think that I was just going to be killed," Ocasio-Cortez told CNN's Dana Bash in "Being...AOC," the first episode of the new CNN series "Being..." that airs Monday night at 9 p.m. Asked if that belief was driven in part by her experience as a survivor of sexual assault, Ocasio-Cortez said past traumas weighed on her mind as she hid. "And for me, I felt like those skills were coming right back so that I could survive." JUST WATCHED Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reacts to Fox News' coverage of her Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reacts to Fox News' coverage of her 02:33She also traced the feeling back to what she described as the "misogyny and the racism" that "animated" the "attack on the Capitol."

Source: CNN August 09, 2021 12:33 UTC