A woman who has accused Russell Simmons of rape is speaking out after filing a $5 million lawsuit against the media mogul, saying she hopes her story inspires other women to “come forward and speak.”Jennifer Jarosik, one of a half-dozen women who say Simmons raped them, said in an emotional interview with NBC’s Megyn Kelly on Tuesday that she was raising her voice “for healing.”“The reason I am here today, which has been so hard for me to do, is for healing,” Jarosik, an aspiring filmmaker, said. “I had a great, tremendous amount of respect for him at the time and I had thought, this is amazing. Here is this high-profile man who understood what I was trying to do, to help women, who offered to give an interview,” she said. After the interview, Jarosik said Simmons asked her director to leave the room so they could speak privately. That’s when she said the 60-year-old Def Jam co-founder “aggressively came on to me.”

Source: Huffington Post January 30, 2018 17:26 UTC